The corpus record — Latin

vaniloquus

vaniloquus · adj

talking emplily

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

vānĭlŏquus — Lewis & Short

vānĭlŏquus (-lŏcus), a, um, adj.vanus-loquor,

I talking emplily or idly, gabbling, prating, i. e.,

I Lying: quia vanilocu's, vapulabis, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 223.— Ambros. Ep. 63, 7.—

II Boastful, bragging, vaunting, Liv. 35, 48, 2: ore, Sil. 14, 280: genus, id. 8, 17.

In the wild

vaniloquus Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 p42
vaniloquus Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.35.48.3

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.