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- Latin · derived frominānis“empty, hollow, void; vain; worthless; foolish, inane”
- English todayinaniloquent
From Latin inānis (“empty, hollow, void; vain; worthless; foolish, inane”) + loquī (from loquor (“to say, speak, tell, talk”)); compare ināniloquium (“nonsense; vain talking”).
Words from the same roots
Latininānis all →
inane
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.