Etymology

stultiloquence

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Today it means: Silly talk; babble. Full definition →

Latin stultiloquentia
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromstultiloquentia
  2. English todaystultiloquence

Learned borrowing from Latin stultiloquentia, from stultus (“foolish”) + loquentia (“a talking”).

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