breviloquium

== Latin == === Etymology === From brevis + loquor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [brɛ.wɪˈɫɔ.kʷi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [bre.viˈlɔː.kʷi.um] === Noun === breviloquium n (genitive breviloquiī or breviloquī); second declension brevity of speech, conciseness ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “breviloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “breviloquium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.