fatiloquent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin fatiloquus, from fatum (“fate”) + ultimately loqui (“speak”) (modeled on eloquent and other such words).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /feɪˈtɪləkwənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective[edit]
fatiloquent (not comparable)
- prophetic; speaking of fate.
- 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun[1], Grove Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 37:
- He paused, adopting a pensive mien which befitted this fatiloquent observation, and I was transfixed by the thick, almost Neanderthal ridges of bone that took the place of eyebrows on his mondial head.
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Translations[edit]
prophetic, speaking of fate
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