loquacious

English

WOTD – 11 January 2007

Borrowed from Latin loquāx (“talkative”) + -cious.

loquacious (comparative more loquacious, superlative most loquacious)

Talkative; chatty.
- 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, ch. 8:
  On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious, or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue.

talkative, chatty

Aromanian: limbutsescu, limbar, zburyearcu, lafãzan
Bulgarian: бъбрив (bg) (bǎbriv)
Catalan: loquaç (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貧嘴 (zh), 贫嘴 (zh) (pínzuǐ), 多嘴 (zh) (duōzuǐ)
Czech: povídavý
Dutch: praatziek (nl), praatgraag (nl)
Finnish: puhelias (fi), suulas (fi)
French: loquace (fr)
German: gesprächig (de), redselig (de), geschwätzig (de), schwatzhaft (de)
Greek: ομιλητικός (el) (omilitikós)
Ancient: λάλος (lálos), πολύλογος (polúlogos), τανύγλωσσος (tanúglōssos)
Irish: teangach, béalach
Italian: loquace (it)
Japanese: 多弁な (ja) (たべんな, taben na)
Latin: loquāx (la), garrulus
Macedonian: збо́рлив (zbórliv), благогла́голив (blagoglágoliv)
Maori: tātākī, pukukōrero, kōtetetete
Mongolian: ам задгай (am zadgaj)
Norwegian: plaprende
Polish: gadatliwy (pl)
Portuguese: loquaz (pt)
Romanian: vorbăreț (ro), limbut (ro), flecar (ro), gureș (ro), guraliv (ro)
Russian: словоохо́тливый (ru) (slovooxótlivyj), разгово́рчивый (ru) (razgovórčivyj), говорли́вый (ru) (govorlívyj), болтли́вый (ru) (boltlívyj)
Scottish Gaelic: beulach, bruithneach, labhairteach, gobach. cabach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: причљив
Roman: pričljiv (sh)
Spanish: locuaz (es)
Swedish: pratsam (sv)
Turkish: konuşgan n, geveze (tr)
Ukrainian: балакучий (uk) m (balakučyj), говіркий m (hovirkyj)
Volapük: spikotälik (vo), spikodiälik