The corpus record — Latin

vaniloquentia

vaniloquentia · f

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Where it lives

Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

vānĭlŏquentĭa — Lewis & Short

vānĭlŏquentĭa, ae, f.vaniloquus,

I empty or idle talk, prating, vaunting (rarely; not in Cic.), Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 14: hac vaniloquentiā primum Aristaenum praetorem Achaeorum excitavit, Liv. 34, 24, 1; Tac. A. 3, 49; 6, 31.—Plur., Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. 2, 10.

In the wild

vaniloquentia Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34.24.1
vaniloquentia Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 p17
vaniloquentia Plautus, Rudens 4.1
vaniloquentiam Tacitus, Annales 6.p36
vaniloquentiam Tacitus, Annales 3.p49

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.