The corpus record — Latin

magniloquus

magniloquus · adj

that speaks in a lofty style, sublime

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Where it lives

De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

magnĭlŏquus — Lewis & Short

magnĭlŏquus, a, um, adj.magnusloquor,

I that speaks in a lofty style, sublime: Homerus, Stat. S. 5, 3, 62.—

II In a bad sense, that speaks in a pompous style, magniloquent, vaunting, boastful: atque illi modo cauti ac sapientes, prompti post eventum ac magniloqui erant, Tac. Agr. 27: os, Ov. M. 8, 396; Mart. 2, 43, 2: lingua, Vulg. Psa. 12, 4: flatus, Stat. Th. 3, 192.

In the wild

magniloqui Tacitus, De Vita Iulii Agricolae 27.2
magniloquo Statius, Silvae 5.3.62
magniloquo Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.396
magniloquos Statius, Thebais 3.192

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.