dulciloquent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Dulciloquent (dulciloquus) that ſpeaks ſweetly."
- "‘Hear me, then, most dulciloquent and incomparable Miss Camilla Mapleton—’"
- "A living essayist is magniloquent, and dulciloquent, about the beauty of the first idea of extracting the private passages of one’s life;"
- "And heard in their native dulciloquent tones / The strains of that land where the surname is Jones."
- "“The dulciloquent versatility of the Greek intonation was inimitable by the magniloquent Romans.”"
- "[…]that, just after the master of the house has said “It’s me,” the butler quite characteristically said “It’s I,” an accurate transcript from speech as it is spoken by those who learnt their English from dulciloquent parents and by those who were taught in the common schools, wrong, and needlessly so."
Etymology
From Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + loquēns, present participle of loquor (“to speak”), after Classical Latin dulciloquus.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dulcis
Usage
Inflected Forms
more dulciloquent (comparative)
most dulciloquent (superlative)