stultiloquus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From stultus (“foolish, stupid”) + -loquus (“speaking”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /stulˈti.lo.kʷus/, [s̠t̪ʊɫ̪ˈt̪ɪɫ̪ɔkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /stulˈti.lo.kwus/, [st̪ul̪ˈt̪iːlokwus]
Adjective edit
stultiloquus (feminine stultiloqua, neuter stultiloquum, comparative stultiloquentior, superlative stultiloquentissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- talking foolishly
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | stultiloquus | stultiloqua | stultiloquum | stultiloquī | stultiloquae | stultiloqua | |
| Genitive | stultiloquī | stultiloquae | stultiloquī | stultiloquōrum | stultiloquārum | stultiloquōrum | |
| Dative | stultiloquō | stultiloquō | stultiloquīs | ||||
| Accusative | stultiloquum | stultiloquam | stultiloquum | stultiloquōs | stultiloquās | stultiloqua | |
| Ablative | stultiloquō | stultiloquā | stultiloquō | stultiloquīs | |||
| Vocative | stultiloque | stultiloqua | stultiloquum | stultiloquī | stultiloquae | stultiloqua | |
References edit
- “stultiloquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- stultiloquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.