Where does “grandiloquent” come from?

grandiloquent (French) comes from Latin grandiloquus, 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...

grandiloquent (French): grandiloquent

Definitions

  1. grandiloquent

Ancestry of “grandiloquent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latingrandiloquusgrandiloquent; 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...

Words derived from “grandiloquent”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -loquus →