English
magniloquent
Magniloquent comes from Latin magniloquens ‘talkative, verbose’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmagniloquens‘talkative, verbose’
- Englishearliest quotation 1908magniloquent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmagniloquens‘talkative, verbose’
- Englishearliest quotation 1908magniloquent
Earliest quotation: 1908, Charles Francis Horne, The Technique of the Novel: “There is no doubt that the ordinary reader would…”
Every English word from Latin magniloquens
Today it means
adj Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin magniloquens / magniloquent