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-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 chatiness is loquay, a Latin verb

meaning to talk or speak. Other words descended from loquy include colloquial, eloquent, soliloquy, and ventriloquism.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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