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The corpus record — Latin

eloquium

eloquium · n

eloquence

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ēlŏquĭum — Lewis & Short

ēlŏquĭum, ii, n.id..

I In Aug. poets, and their imitators among prose writers, for eloquentia, eloquence, * Hor. A. P. 217; * Verg. A. 11, 383; Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 46; id. M. 13, 63; 322 al.; Vell. 2, 68, 1; Plin. 11, 17, 18, § 55.—
II In late Lat., declaration, communication in gen., Diom. p. 413 P.; Mamert. Pan. Maxim. 9: eloquia pulchritudinis, fine words, Vulg. Gen. 49, 21; id. Prov. 4, 20 al.

In the wild

6 of 100 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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