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The corpus record — Latin

macrŏlŏgĭa

macrŏlŏgĭa · f

tediousness in speech

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What it meant — Lewis & Short

macrŏlŏgĭa, ae, f., = makrologi/a,

I tediousness in speech (Lat. longiloquium), Pomp. Gram. Com. in Donat. de Barb. 3, 1, p. 293 Keil (as Greek, trans., longior quam oportet sermo, Quint. 8, 3, 53).

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.