turpiloquium

== Latin == === Etymology === From turpis (“unseemly”) + loquor (“to speak”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tʊr.pɪˈɫɔ.kʷi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tur.piˈlɔː.kʷi.um] === Noun === turpiloquium n (genitive turpiloquiī or turpiloquī); second declension obscene or immodest speech, profanity c. 155 AD — c. 240 AD, Tertullian, De Pudicitia, 17 Demonstrat et Colossensibus, quae membra mortificent super terram, fornicationem immunditiam libidinem concupiscentiam malam et turpiloquium. c. 340 AD — 397 AD, Ambrose, De Fide, 5.10.110 ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== loquor turpificātus turpis === References === “turpiloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "turpiloquium", 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) “turpiloquium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.