Etymology

magniloquent

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Today it means: Using pompous speech; speaking with deliberately long or esoteric words. Full definition →

Latin magniloquens
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  1. Latin · derived frommagniloquens“talkative, verbose”
  2. English todaymagniloquent

From post-Classical Latin magniloquens (“talkative, verbose”).

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