The corpus record — Latin

magniloquentia

magniloquentia · f

Elevated language, a lofty style

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

magnĭlŏquentĭa — Lewis & Short

magnĭlŏquentĭa, ae, f.magniloquus.

I Elevated language, a lofty style or strain (class.): hexametrorum, Cic. Or. 57, 191: Homeri, id. Fam. 13, 15, 2: Graecarum facundiarum, Gell. 3, 7, 1.—

II In a bad sense, pompous language, magniloquence, boasting (perh. not ante-Aug.): quā auditā re, principem legationis, cujus magniloquentiam vix curia paulo ante ceperat, corruisse, Liv. 44, 15, 2: vestra, Gell. 1, 2, 6: adulatorum, Amm. 16, 12, 69.

In the wild

magniloquentia Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.2.6
magniloquentiam Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 p16
magniloquentia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.69
magniloquentiae Cicero, Orator 191
magniloquentia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.3.13
magniloquentia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.37

6 of 10 attestations shown.

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.