The corpus record — Latin

grandiloquus

grandiloquus · m

speaking grandly

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Where it lives

Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

grandĭlŏquus — Lewis & Short

grandĭlŏquus, i, m.grandis-loquor,

I speaking grandly or loftily: et grandiloqui, ut ita dicam, fuerunt cum ampla et sententiarum gravitate et majestate verborum, Cic. Or. 5, 20; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 66: stilus, Serv. Verg. Vit.—In a bad sense, grandiloquent: isti grandiloqui (i. e. Stoici), boasters, Cic. Tusc. 5, 31, 89.

In the wild

grandiloqui Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.89.p1
grandiloquum Apuleius, Apologia 7
grandiloqui Cicero, Orator 20
grandiloquus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.66

Where it came from

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