stultiloquium

Latin

Etymology

Coined by Plautus, from stultus +‎ loquor +‎ -ium.

Noun

stultiloquium n (genitive stultiloquiī or stultiloquī); second declension

1. babbling, stultiloquy (silly talk)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	stultiloquium	stultiloquia
genitive	stultiloquiī stultiloquī1	stultiloquiōrum
dative	stultiloquiō	stultiloquiīs
accusative	stultiloquium	stultiloquia
ablative	stultiloquiō	stultiloquiīs
vocative	stultiloquium	stultiloquia

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

References

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