linguax
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From lingua (“tongue”) + -ax.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlin.ɡʷaːks/, [ˈlʲɪŋɡʷäːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlin.ɡwaks/, [ˈliŋɡwäks]
Adjective edit
linguāx (genitive linguācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- loquacious
- c. 125 CE – c. 180 CE, Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 1.15:
- Neque minus insigniter ueteres quoque nostri hoc genus homines in uerba proiectos “locutuleios” et “blaterones” et “linguaces” dixerunt.
- Not any less notably, our forebears also called such men given to words as "chatterers", "babblers", "prattlers".
- Neque minus insigniter ueteres quoque nostri hoc genus homines in uerba proiectos “locutuleios” et “blaterones” et “linguaces” dixerunt.
- 1518, Erasmus, Colloquia Lusus Pueriles:
- Nam perfrictae frontis est, ac bene linguax.
- He is both bold and very loquacious.
- Nam perfrictae frontis est, ac bene linguax.
Declension edit
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | linguāx | linguācēs | linguācia | ||
| Genitive | linguācis | linguācium | |||
| Dative | linguācī | linguācibus | |||
| Accusative | linguācem | linguāx | linguācēs | linguācia | |
| Ablative | linguācī | linguācibus | |||
| Vocative | linguāx | linguācēs | linguācia | ||
Synonyms edit
References edit
- “linguax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- linguax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.