magniloquent
英 [mæg'nɪləkwənt]
美 [mæg'nɪləkwənt]
英語の語源
- magniloquent (adj.)
- 1650s, a back-formation from magniloquence, or else from Latin magniloquentia "lofty style of language," from magniloquus "pompous in talk, vaunting, boastful," from comb. form of magnus "great" (see magnate) + -loquus "speaking," from loqui "to speak" (see locution).
例文
- 1. News of the death of forests appears to have been greatly magniloquent .
- 森林が滅亡したというニュースは大きく誇張されているようだ。
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