Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

centiloquy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cen-til-o-quy
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A work divided into a hundred parts.

Dated

Example Sentences

"Ptolemæus in his Centiloquy, Hermes, or whosoever else the author of that Tract, attributes all these symptoms, which are in melancholy men, to celestial influences"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin centiloquium. By surface analysis, centi- + -loquy.

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

centiloquies (plural)

Synonyms

centiloquium

Questions

What does centiloquy mean?: A work divided into a hundred parts.
Where does centiloquy come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin centiloquium. By surface analysis, centi- + -loquy.

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