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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin loquēla.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /loˈkwɛ.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛla
  • Hyphenation: lo‧què‧la

Noun

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loquela f (plural loquele)

  1. loquacity
  2. language

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From loquor (speak) +‎ -ēla. The form in -ell- is due to reanalysis as a diminutive.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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loquēla f (genitive loquēlae); first declension

  1. speech, utterance, language, discourse

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative loquēla loquēlae
genitive loquēlae loquēlārum
dative loquēlae loquēlīs
accusative loquēlam loquēlās
ablative loquēlā loquēlīs
vocative loquēla loquēlae

References

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  • loquela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • loquela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • loquela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • loquela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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