spurciloquium

Latin

Etymology

From spurcus (“dirty”) +‎ loquor (“I speak”) +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /spur.kiˈlo.kʷi.um/, [s̠pʊrkɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /spur.t͡ʃiˈlo.kwi.um/, [spurt͡ʃiˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

spurciloquium n (genitive spurciloquiī or spurciloquī); second declension

1. filthy or smutty language
2. obscenity

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	spurciloquium	spurciloquia
Genitive	spurciloquiī spurciloquī1	spurciloquiōrum
Dative	spurciloquiō	spurciloquiīs
Accusative	spurciloquium	spurciloquia
Ablative	spurciloquiō	spurciloquiīs
Vocative	spurciloquium	spurciloquia

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

References

• “spurciloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spurciloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.