The corpus record — Latin

loquela

loquela · f

speech, language, words, discourse

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
Apotheosis 3 · 4.05/10k
Epistularum 3 · 3.3/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5 · 0.71/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

lŏquēla — Lewis & Short

lŏquēla (incorrectly written lŏquel-la), ae, f.id.,

I speech, language, words, discourse.

I Lit.: commoda loquelam tuam, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 76: fuditque has ore loquelas, Verg. A. 5, 842: nutricis blanda loquela, Lucr. 5, 230.—

II Transf. *

A A word: hinc quidam loquelam dixerunt verbum, Varr. L. L. 6, § 57 Müll.—*

B A language: Graia loquela, Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 68.

In the wild

loquellam Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 6.92
loquellis Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.34
loquelam Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 16.44
loquella Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.235
loquella Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.71
loquelas Vergil, Aeneid 5.842

6 of 27 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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