blandiloquium

== Latin == === Etymology === From blandus +‎ loquor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bɫan.dɪˈɫɔ.kʷi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [blan.diˈlɔː.kʷi.um] === Noun === blandiloquium n (genitive blandiloquiī or blandiloquī); second declension flattering speech ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “blandiloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “blandiloquium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.