It's the Word of the Day podcast for July 15th.
Today's word is loquacious, spelled L-O-Q-U-A-C-I-O-U-S.
Loquacious is an adjective.
It means liking to talk and talking smoothly and easily.
Someone described as loquacious might also be called wordy, prone to using more words than necessary,
or garrulous, meaning tending to talk a lot.
Here's the word used, in a sentence from Nature Communications.
Due to their loquacious nature,
marmosets have recently become a focus of studies on the revolutionary origin of human speech and language.
Loquacious undeniably has a poetic ring to it.
It's been a favorite of the writerly sort since it made its first appearance in English in the 17th century,
and with poetic license, writers stretched its meaning beyond talkative,
and especially excessively talkative, to describe such things as the chattering of birds and the babbling of brooks.
The ultimate source of all this chattiness is loquai, a Latin verb meaning to talk or speak.
Other words descended from loquai include colloquial, eloquent, soliloquy, and ventriloquism.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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