Etymology

vaniloquence

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Today it means: Idle or vain talk. Full definition →

Latin vanus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromvanus“vain”
  2. English todayvaniloquence

From Latin vanus (“vain”) + loquentia (“talk”).

Words from the same roots

Latinvanus all →

vainvaingloriousvaunt

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.