turpiloquium

From turpis (“unseemly”) + loquor (“speak”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tur.piˈlo.kʷi.um/, [tʊr.pɪˈɫɔ.kᶣi.ʊ̃]

turpiloquium n (genitive turpiloquiī or turpiloquī); second declension

1. obscene or immodest speech
   • c. 155 AD — c. 240 AD, Tertullian, De Pudicitia, 17

     Demonstrat et Colossensibus, quae membra mortificent super terram, fornicationem immunditiam libidinem concupiscentiam malam et turpiloquium.

   • c. 340 AD — 397 AD, Ambrose, De Fide, 5.10.110

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• loquor
• turpificātus
• turpis

• turpiloquium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• turpiloquium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• turpiloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette