Etymograph

English

loquacity

Loquacity comes from Latin loquācitās ‘talkativeness, loquacity’, from loquor ‘to say, speak, tell, talk, utter’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*telkʷ-‘to talk’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tlokʷ-reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tlokʷōr‘to speak’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEloquor‘to say, speak, tell, talk, utter’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEloquācitās‘talkativeness, loquacity’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600loquacité
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1603loquacity

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*telkʷ-‘to talk’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*tlokʷ-reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tlokʷōr‘to speak’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEloquor‘to say, speak, tell, talk, utter’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEloquācitās‘talkativeness, loquacity’
  6. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600loquacité
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1603loquacity

Earliest quotation: 1603, Plutarch, Of Hearing: “A man that were ſo diſpoſed, may ſeeme in…”

Formed from -acity

Linked words

through Latin loquor ‘to say, speak, tell, talk, utter’

eloquent, colloquial, eloquence, interlocutor, colloquium, soliloquy, 18 more

Today it means

noun Talkativeness; the quality of being loquacious.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- / loquacity

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