Where does “alloquy” come from?
alloquy (English) comes from Latin alloquium, from Latin alloqui, from Latin alloquor, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
alloquy (English): Act of speaking to another; an address
Definitions
- Act of speaking to another; an address
Ancestry of “alloquy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | alloquium | — |
| 2 | Latin | alloqui | present active infinitive of alloquor |
| 3 | Latin | alloquor | I speak to, address; salute, greet; I exhort,... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |