magniloquentia

Latin

Etymology

From magniloquus +‎ -entia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maɡ.ni.loˈkʷen.ti.a/, [mäŋnɪɫ̪ɔˈkʷɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maɲ.ɲi.loˈkwen.t͡si.a/, [mäɲːiloˈkwɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

magniloquentia f (genitive magniloquentiae); first declension

1. Verbose or elevated speech, of a grandiose style
   • Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares, 13.15.

     itaque ab Homeri magniloquentia confero me ad vera praecepta Euripidou.

     Accordingly from the high style of Homer I transfer myself to the true maxims of Euripides.

2. Pompous or boastful language
   • Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, 44.15.2.

     qua audita re principem legationis, cuius magniloquentiam uix curia paulo ante ceperat, corruisse.

     On hearing this the leader of the legation, whose boastful language the House had a few moments before hardly been able to endure, fell down in a state of collapse.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	magniloquentia	magniloquentiae
genitive	magniloquentiae	magniloquentiārum
dative	magniloquentiae	magniloquentiīs
accusative	magniloquentiam	magniloquentiās
ablative	magniloquentiā	magniloquentiīs
vocative	magniloquentia	magniloquentiae

References

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