turpiloquium

Latin

Etymology

From turpis (“unseemly”) +‎ loquor (“to speak”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tur.piˈlo.kʷi.um/, [t̪ʊrpɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tur.piˈlo.kwi.um/, [t̪urpiˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

turpiloquium n (genitive turpiloquiī or turpiloquī); second declension

1. obscene or immodest speech, profanity
   • c. 155 AD — c. 240 AD, Tertullian, De Pudicitia, 17

     Demonstrat et Colossensibus, quae membra mortificent super terram, fornicationem immunditiam libidinem concupiscentiam malam et turpiloquium.

   • c. 340 AD — 397 AD, Ambrose, De Fide, 5.10.110

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	turpiloquium	turpiloquia
Genitive	turpiloquiī turpiloquī1	turpiloquiōrum
Dative	turpiloquiō	turpiloquiīs
Accusative	turpiloquium	turpiloquia
Ablative	turpiloquiō	turpiloquiīs
Vocative	turpiloquium	turpiloquia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• loquor
• turpificātus
• turpis

References

• “turpiloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• turpiloquium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• turpiloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.