Noun: colloquial
| Singular | colloquial |
| Plural | colloquials |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like colloquial
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-
8. Proto-Indo-European *tlokʷetorder.
9. Proto-Italic *tlokʷōr
10. Latin loquor
11. Latin colloquor
12. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
13. Proto-Italic *-ijos
14. Proto-Italic *-ios
15. Old Latin -ios
16. Latin -iusnom.
17. Latin -ium
18. Latin colloquiumder.
19. Middle English colloquies
20. English colloquy
21. English -al
22. English colloquial
23. 1751, from earlier term colloquy (“a conversation”), from Latin colloquium (“conference, conversation”), from con- (“together”) + loquor (“to speak”), + -al. See: Latin Nouns '
colloquium'.