breviloquium

From brevis +‎ loquor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /bre.u̯iˈlo.kʷi.um/, [breu̯ɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bre.viˈlo.kwi.um/, [breviˈlɔːkwium]

breviloquium n (genitive breviloquiī or breviloquī); second declension

1. brevity of speech, conciseness

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “breviloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• breviloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.