Where does “loquacious” come from?
Loquacious comes from Latin loquax, derived from Latin loquor, which traces through Proto-Italic tlokʷōr to Proto-Indo-European telkʷ-, meaning to speak.
loquacious (English): Talkative; chatty
Definitions
- Talkative; chatty
Ancestry of “loquacious”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | loquacity | Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious |
| 2 | French | loquacité | talkativeness |
| 3 | Latin | loquacitas | talkativeness, loquacity; vocative singular of... |
| 4 | Latin | loquāx | talkative, chatty, loquacious |
| 5 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 6 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |