Where does “unloquaciousness” come from?
unloquaciousness (English) comes from English unloquacious, from English loquacious, from English loquacity, from French loquacité, from Latin loquacitas, from Latin loquāx, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
unloquaciousness (English): The quality of being unloquacious
Definitions
- The quality of being unloquacious
Ancestry of “unloquaciousness”, step by step
unloquaciousness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English unloquacious
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unloquacious | Not loquacious, having little to say |
| 2 | English | loquacious | Talkative; chatty |
| 3 | English | loquacity | Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious |
| 4 | French | loquacité | talkativeness |
| 5 | Latin | loquacitas | talkativeness, loquacity; vocative singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | loquāx | talkative, chatty, loquacious |
| 7 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 8 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 9 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via English Ness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ness | An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa |
| 2 | Middle English | nesse | — |
| 3 | Old English | næs | not, not at all; not; first/third-person singular... |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | nasją | foothill; headland; cape |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | néh₂s | nose |