speak at length, use many words
speak at length, use many words, Pl. Grg. 465b, Tht. 163d, Isoc. 3.63, Arist. Rh.Al. 1440b36, etc.; περί τινος Hp. Art. 43; τὰ ῥηθέντα τί ἄν τις -λογοίη X. HG 4.1.13.
The corpus record
μακρο-λογέω
makrologeo
speak at length, use many words
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Where it lives
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
- Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
- Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- μακρολογῶ · makrologō Plato, Gorgias 465
- μακρολογῶμεν · makrologōmen Plato, Republic 3.403 (DIORISIS sentence 1841)
- μακρολογῶμεν · makrologōmen Plato, Republic 5.455 (DIORISIS sentence 2916)
- μακρολογῶ · makrologō Plato, Theaetetus 163
- μακρολογοίη · makrologoiē Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.13 (DIORISIS sentence 1280)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.