Latin

Noun

fācundia f ‎(genitive fācundiae); first declension

1. eloquence
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 4.7

     non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te restituet pietas

     Not birth, nor eloquence, nor worth, shall reincarnate you, Torquatus

2. vocative singular of fācundia

fācundiā

1. ablative singular of fācundia

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• French: faconde
• Spanish: facundia

References

• facundia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• facundia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FACUNDIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “facundia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.