Pronounced: dih-BEN-chur, noun
Notes: I’ve run across the word before; it turns out that I have been mispronouncing it… and not only that, I wasn’t quite right in the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word magniloquent means “speaking in or characterized by a high-flown (often bombastic) style or manner”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1600s
Background / Comments
I correctly noted the “loquent” as referring to speech, but I thought the prefix meant “bad” (as in ‘malevolent’). In reality, our word is composed of the Latin word magnus (great) and loqui (to speak). Our word is a synonym of grandiloquent, which is the older word.
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