# eloquent
## English
### Etymology

From Old French eloquent, from Latin eloquens (“speaking, having the faculty of speech, eloquent”), present participle of eloquor (“to speak out”), from e (“out”) + loquor (“to speak”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɛl.əˌkwənt/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Adjective

eloquent (comparative more eloquent, superlative most eloquent)
* Fluently persuasive and articulate.
    Synonyms: articulate, well-spoken
    an eloquent writer
* Effective in expressing meaning by speech.
    an eloquent article
* (medicine) Relating to areas in the brain that serve an identifiable neurological function, in which injury leads to focal deficits or disability.
** 2016 February 7, Caroline Davies, “Been anywhere nice this year? Brain surgery where patients are kept chatting”, in The Guardian‎:Lydiard was diagnosed shortly after new year following speech disturbance and subtle memory issues. He has a high-grade glioma, an aggressive malignant primary brain tumour in the left side. It is in the “eloquent brain”, very close to the part that controls speech, and would have been considered untreatable in the past.

#### Usage notes

Eloquent expresses stronger praise than do articulate or well-spoken.

#### Derived terms

* eloquate
* eloquently
* eloquentness
* ineloquent
* sialoquent
* splendiloquent
* supereloquent
* uneloquent

#### Related terms

* colloquial
* colloquium
* colloquy
* elocution
* eloquence
* grandiloquent
* illocution
* interlocution
* interlocutor
* locution
* loquacious
* magniloquent
* perlocution

#### Translations

Arabic: فَصِيح m (faṣīḥ), فُصْحَى f (fuṣḥā), بَلِيغ (balīḡ), طَلِيق اللِّسَان (ṭalīq al-lisān)
Armenian: պերճախոս (hy) (perčaxos)
Azerbaijani: bəlağətli, fəsahətli
Basque: berritsu
Bulgarian: красноречив (bg) (krasnorečiv)
Catalan: eloqüent
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有口才 (yǒu kǒucái), 口若懸河 / 口若悬河 (zh) (kǒuruòxuánhé), 能言善辯 / 能言善辩 (zh) (néngyán-shànbiàn)
Czech: výřečný (cs), výmluvný
Danish: veltalende
Dutch: welsprekend (nl), eloquent (nl), welbespraakt (nl)
Egyptian: (nfr mdw)
Esperanto: elokventa
Finnish: kaunopuheinen
French: éloquent (fr)
Galician: elocuente m or f
German: redegewandt (de), eloquent (de), wortgewandt (de)
Greek: εύγλωττος (el) m (évglottos), ευφραδής (el) m (effradís)
Ancient: εὔγλωσσος (eúglōssos), ἐλλόγιμος (ellógimos)
Hungarian: ékesszóló (hu)
Icelandic: mæskur
Ido: eloquenta (io)
Italian: eloquente (it)
Japanese: 雄弁な (ja) (ゆうべんな, yūben na), 爽やかな (ja) (さわやかな, sawayaka na), 三寸な (さんずんな, sanzun na), 口八丁な (くちはっちょうな, kuchihatchō na)
Latin: argūtus, ēloquens (la), fācundus
Macedonian: речит m (rečit), красно́речив m (krasnórečiv)
Manx: jeih-ocklagh
Maori: wahapū
Ottoman Turkish: فصیح (fasih)
Polish: elokwentny (pl)
Portuguese: eloquente (pt)
Romanian: elocvent (ro)
Russian: красноречи́вый (ru) m (krasnorečívyj)
Scottish Gaelic: deas-bhriathrach
Slovak: výrečný
Spanish: elocuente (es)
Swedish: vältalig (sv), elokvent (sv)
Welsh: huawdl (cy) :

#### Further reading

* “eloquent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “eloquent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French éloquent, from Latin ēloquēns.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌeː.loːˈkʋɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: e‧lo‧quent
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Adjective

eloquent (comparative eloquenter, superlative eloquentst)
* eloquent
    Synonyms: welbespraakt, welsprekend, (uncommon) bespraakt

#### Related terms

* elocutie
* eloquentie

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

eloquent (strong nominative masculine singular eloquenter, comparative eloquenter, superlative am eloquentesten)
* eloquent
    Synonym: redegewandt

#### Related terms

* Eloquenz

### Further reading

* “eloquent” in Duden online
* “eloquent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French eloquent, from Latin eloquens (“speaking, having the faculty of speech, eloquent”), present participle of eloqui (“to speak out”), from e (“out”) + loqui (“to speak”).

### Adjective

eloquent m (feminine singular eloquente, masculine plural eloquents, feminine plural eloquentes)
* eloquent

#### Related terms

* eloquence