Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin fatiloquus, from fatum ("fate") + ultimately loqui ("speak") (modeled on eloquent and other such words). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We still should, in such like discourses of fatiloquent soothsayers, interpret all things to the best.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fatiloquent’.
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words you have probably never heard o...
a list of words.
brabejum, braccate, braccial, bo'zal, brachiate, brachis'tochrone, brail, bran'card, bran'chiobdel'la, brassica, brasenia, euclase and 97 more...
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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electriccounterpoint's list
Words I've tried to remember in the past and failed, or words I might want in the future
preprandial, hobson's choice, defenestrate, sähkö, backpfeifengesicht, exegesis, midrash, hrvatska, ljubljana, dirigisme, dirigiste, fatiloquent and 35 more...
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Impressive
Impressive words to use in everyday speech
anathema, ensorcel, troglodyte, vicissitude, heterodoxy, epergne, eleemosynary, obstreperous, aliunde, concomitant, dirigiste, sang-froid and 69 more...
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Vocabulary
Tweets
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mollusque Prophetic. Jan 20, 2008