eloquentia

Latin

Etymology 1

From ēloquēns (“eloquent, articulate”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.loˈkʷen.ti.a/, [eːɫ̪ɔˈkʷɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.loˈkwen.t͡si.a/, [eloˈkwɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

ēloquentia f (genitive ēloquentiae); first declension

1. eloquence

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēloquentia	ēloquentiae
genitive	ēloquentiae	ēloquentiārum
dative	ēloquentiae	ēloquentiīs
accusative	ēloquentiam	ēloquentiās
ablative	ēloquentiā	ēloquentiīs
vocative	ēloquentia	ēloquentiae

Descendants

• Catalan: eloqüència
• English: eloquence
• French: éloquence
• Italian: eloquenza
• Portuguese: eloquência
• Romanian: elocvență
• Sicilian: eluquenza
• Spanish: elocuencia

Etymology 2

Participle

ēloquentia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of ēloquēns

References

• “eloquentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eloquentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• eloquentia 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)
• eloquentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a distinguished orator: eloquentiae laude florere
    
  • to be considered the foremost orator: eloquentiae principatum tenere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very eloquent: eloquentia valere