Latin edit

Etymology edit

From parcus (scanty) +‎ loquor (to speak, talk) +‎ -ium.

Noun edit

parciloquium n (genitive parciloquiī or parciloquī); second declension

  1. pauciloquy

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative parciloquium parciloquia
Genitive parciloquiī
parciloquī1
parciloquiōrum
Dative parciloquiō parciloquiīs
Accusative parciloquium parciloquia
Ablative parciloquiō parciloquiīs
Vocative parciloquium parciloquia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References edit

  • parciloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • parciloquium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • parciloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • parciloquium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016