-loquus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
loquor (“I speak”) + -us (adjective-forming suffix).
Suffix edit
-loquus (feminine -loqua, neuter -loquum, comparative -loquentior, superlative -loquentissimus); first/second-declension suffix
- Forms adjectives that specify the manner of one's speech
- vānus (“vain, idle”) > vāniloquus (“talking idly, lying, boastful”)
- malus (“evil, bad”) > maliloquus (“evil-speaking, slanderous”)
- venter (“belly”) > ventriloquus (“speaking with the belly, a ventriloquist”)
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -loquus | -loqua | -loquum | -loquī | -loquae | -loqua | |
| Genitive | -loquī | -loquae | -loquī | -loquōrum | -loquārum | -loquōrum | |
| Dative | -loquō | -loquō | -loquīs | ||||
| Accusative | -loquum | -loquam | -loquum | -loquōs | -loquās | -loqua | |
| Ablative | -loquō | -loquā | -loquō | -loquīs | |||
| Vocative | -loque | -loqua | -loquum | -loquī | -loquae | -loqua | |