Etymology

From lingua (“tongue”) +‎ -axCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -ax#LINGUAX.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈlɪŋ.ɡʷaːks]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#LINGUAXCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#LINGUAX
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliŋ.ɡʷaks]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#LINGUAXCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#LINGUAX

Adjective

linguāx (genitive linguācis)Category:Latin lemmas#LINGUAXCategory:Latin adjectives#LINGUAXCategory:Latin third declension adjectives#LINGUAXCategory:Latin third declension adjectives of one termination#LINGUAXCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#LINGUAXCategory:Pages with entries#LINGUAXCategory:Pages with 1 entry#LINGUAX; third-declension one-termination adjective

1. loquacious
   • c. 125 CE – c. 180 CE, Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 1.15:

     Neque minus insigniter ueteres quoque nostri hoc genus homines in uerba proiectos “locutuleios” et “blaterones” et “linguaces” dixerunt.

     Not any less notably, our forebears also called such men given to words as "chatterers", "babblers", "prattlers".

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   • 1518, Erasmus, Colloquia Lusus Pueriles:

     Nam perfrictae frontis est, ac bene linguax.

     He is both bold and very loquacious.

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References

• “linguax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “linguax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.