Where does “magniloquous” come from?

magniloquous (English) comes from Latin magniloquus, from Latin -loquus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

magniloquous (English): magniloquent

Definitions

  1. magniloquent

Ancestry of “magniloquous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmagniloquusmagniloquent, vaunting, boastful
2Latin-loquus—
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -loquus →