alieniloquium

== Latin == === Etymology === From aliēnus (“alien”) +‎ loquī (“speak”) +‎ -ium. For the meaning of crazy talk, babble, compare to aliēna loquor (“talk strangely, widely”). For the meaning of allegory, this is a calque of Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría, “allegory”), from ἄλλος (állos, “other”) +‎ ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “speak”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.li.eː.nɪˈɫɔ.kʷi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.li.e.niˈlɔː.kʷi.um] === Noun === aliēniloquium n (genitive aliēniloquiī or aliēniloquī); second declension the talk of crazy people, babble (Medieval Latin) allegory ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== English: alieniloquy === References === “alieniloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "alieniloquium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “alieniloquium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. alieniloquium in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016