Where does “loquaciousness” come from?
loquaciousness (English) comes from English loquacious, from English loquacity, from French loquacité, from Latin loquacitas, from Latin loquāx, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
loquaciousness (English): The state or property of being loquacious
Definitions
- The state or property of being loquacious
Ancestry of “loquaciousness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | loquacious | Talkative; chatty |
| 2 | English | loquacity | Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious |
| 3 | French | loquacité | talkativeness |
| 4 | Latin | loquacitas | talkativeness, loquacity; vocative singular of... |
| 5 | Latin | loquāx | talkative, chatty, loquacious |
| 6 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 7 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 8 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |