turpiloquium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From turpis (“unseemly”) + loquor (“to speak”) + -ium.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tur.piˈlo.kʷi.um/, [t̪ʊrpɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tur.piˈlo.kwi.um/, [t̪urpiˈlɔːkwium]
Noun edit
turpiloquium n (genitive turpiloquiī or turpiloquī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | turpiloquium | turpiloquia |
Genitive | turpiloquiī turpiloquī1 |
turpiloquiōrum |
Dative | turpiloquiō | turpiloquiīs |
Accusative | turpiloquium | turpiloquia |
Ablative | turpiloquiō | turpiloquiīs |
Vocative | turpiloquium | turpiloquia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms edit
References edit
- “turpiloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- turpiloquium 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)
- turpiloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.