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Etymology [ edit ]

From Latin fatiloquus, from fatum (“fate”) + ultimately loqui (“speak”) (modeled on eloquent and other such words).

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IPA (key) : /feɪˈtɪləkwənt/ Audio (UK)

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Adjective [ edit ]

fatiloquent (not comparable)

prophetic; speaking of fate. 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun, Grove Press (2005), →ISBN, page 37: He paused, adopting a pensive mien which befitted this fatiloquent observation, and I was transfixed by the thick, almost Neanderthal ridges of bone that took the place of eyebrows on his mondial head.

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