English
fatiloquent
Fatiloquent comes from Latin fatiloquus ‘prophetic’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfatiloquus‘prophetic’
- Englishearliest quotation 1993fatiloquent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfatiloquus‘prophetic’
- Englishearliest quotation 1993fatiloquent
Earliest quotation: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun: “He paused, adopting a pensive mien which befitted this…”
A compound of fatum ‘fate’ + loqui ‘speak’
Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- ‘to talk’
Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷ-
Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr ‘to speak’
Latin loquor ‘speak’
Every English word from Latin fatiloquus
Today it means
adj prophetic; speaking of fate.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fatiloquus / fatiloquent