grandiloquus

== Latin == === Etymology === From grandis (“great”) + -loquus (“speaking”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡranˈdɪ.ɫɔ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ɡranˈdiː.lo.kʷus] === Adjective === grandiloquus (feminine grandiloqua, neuter grandiloquum); first/second-declension adjective grandiloquent boastful ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Related terms ==== loquor ==== Descendants ==== English: grandiloquent French: grandiloquent Portuguese: grandíloquo, grandiloquente Spanish: grandílocuo, grandilocuente === References === “grandiloquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “grandiloquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “grandiloquus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.