# loquor
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-; see also Sanskrit तर्क (tarka, “conjecture”), Old Church Slavonic тлъкъ (tlŭkŭ, “interpreter”) and Old Irish do·tluchethar (“to ask”), ad·tluchedar (“to thank”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈlo.kʷor/, [ˈɫ̪ɔkʷɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlo.kwor/, [ˈlɔːkwor]

### Verb

loquor (present infinitive loquī or loquier, perfect active locūtus sum); third conjugation, deponent
* to say, speak, tell, talk, utter
    Synonyms: aio, effor, for, dīcō, inquam, alloquor, oro
    vīsne mēcum latīnē loquī? ― Do you want to speak Latin with me?
    rēs ipsa loquitur. ― The matter speaks for itself.
** 16 BCE, Ovid, The Loves 1.11.15:Dum loquor, hōra fugit.Even as I speak, time fleeteth way.
** c. 54 CE, Seneca the Younger, Phaedra :Cūrae levēs locuntur, ingentēs stupent.Trivial concerns talk, great ones are speechless.
* to declare, speak, or state more formally as in a legal context or in defense of someone or something
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.337:“Prō rē pauca loquar. [...].”“I shall state a few [facts] about the matter.”

#### Conjugation

$^1$The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

#### Derived terms

* aliēniloquium
* alloquium
* alloquor
* anteloquium
* astriloquus
* blandiloquium
* blandiloquus
* breviloquēns
* breviloquium
* breviloquus
* caeliloquus
* circumloquor
* colloquium
* colloquor
* confīdentiloquus
* doctiloquus
* dulciloquus
* ēloquium
* ēloquor
* fallāciloquus
* falsiloquium
* falsiloquus
* fātiloquium
* flexiloquus
* grandiloquus
* ināniloquium
* ināniloquus
* inēloquax
* inēloquēns
* inēloquibilis
* inesubtililoquus
* interloquor
* largiloquus
* lātiloquēns
* locūtīlis
* locūtiō
* locūtor
* locūtōrium
* locūtulēius
* locūtuleus
* locūtus
* longiloquium
* loquāx
* loquēla
* loquēlāris
* loquēns
* loquitor
* magniloquax
* magniloquium
* magniloquus
* maliloquax
* maliloquium
* maliloquus
* mendāciloquium
* mendāciloquus
* minūtiloquium
* multiloquus
* Nugipalamloquides
* obliquoloquus
* obloquium
* obloquor
* parciloquium
* pauciloquium
* pereloquēns
* planiloquus
* praeloquor
* prōloquor
* reloquus
* risiloquium
* sanctiloquus
* sōliloquium
* stultiloquium
* stultiloquus
* suāviloquēns
* suāviloquium
* suāviloquus
* superbiloquentia
* tardiloquus
* Tedigniloquides
* terriloquus
* tolūtiloquentia
* trāloquor
* turpiloquium
* Vāniloquidōrus
* vāniloquium
* vāniloquus
* ventriloquus
* vēriloquium
* vēriloquus
* versiloquus
* versūtiloquus

#### Related terms

* allocūtiō
* allocūtus
* blandiloquentia
* blandiloquentulus
* breviloquentia
* collocūtiō
* collocūtor
* ēloquor
* interlocūtiō
* locūtiō
* locūtor
* locūtuleus
* loquācitās
* loquāciter
* loquāculus
* loquentia
* magniloquentia
* multiloquax
* multiloquentia
* multiloquium
* oblocūtiō
* oblocūtor
* praelocūtiō
* praelocūtor
* prōlocūtiō
* prōlocūtor
* prōlocūtrix
* prōlocūtus
* prōloquium
* stultiloquentia
* suāviloquentia
* subtililoquentia
* vāniloquentia
* vēriloquax

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “loquor, loquī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 348-9

### Further reading

* “loquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “loquor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* loquor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse the matter speaks for itself: res ipsa (pro me apud te) loquitur to make contradictory, inconsistent statements: pugnantia loqui (Tusc. 1. 7. 13) (1) to speak vehemently, passionately; (2) to speak pompously, boastfully: magnifice loqui, dicere (1) to speak Latin, (2) to speak good Latin (also bene latine), (3) to express oneself clearly: latine loqui (Brut. 45. 166) to speak the Greek language: graece or graeca lingua loqui to think one thing, say another; to conceal one's opinions: aliter sentire ac loqui (aliud sentire, aliud loqui) to speak personally to..: coram loqui (cum aliquo) speak up, please: clarius loquere