Nugipalamloquides
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Latin
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Etymology
[edit]From nugae (“nonsense”) + palam (“publicly”) + loqui (“to speak”). Coined by Titus Maccius Plautus (Plaut. Pers. line 703). The term is a modern rendering of the word in the original text, which renders it as Nugiepiloquides, from nugae (“nonsense”) + epi (“on”) + loqui (“to speak”). Therefore, the term would be defined as "a person publicly speaking [on the subject] of nonsense."
Proper noun
[edit]Nugipalamloquidēs m sg (genitive Nugipalamloquidis); third declension
- One who is a public speaker of nonsense.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Nugipalamloquidēs |
| Genitive | Nugipalamloquidis |
| Dative | Nugipalamloquidī |
| Accusative | Nugipalamloquidem |
| Ablative | Nugipalamloquide |
| Vocative | Nugipalamloquidēs |
References
[edit]- “Nūgĭpălamlŏquĭdes, is”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press