SPEAK Copy link • SPEAKTo utter articulate sounds as expressions of thought, loqui (to express one’s thoughts; opposed to tacere or reticere; especially in familiar conversation): dicere (to enunciate, utter in words; more formally, as in a set speech): fari (rare in prose: used by poets of solemn or set speech): fabulari, and (of several) confabulari (almost exclusively comedy): verba facere (of a set speech, by an orator). To learn to speak, loquendi facultatem consequi (Cels.). To speak together, or with one another, colloqui: sermocinari: sermonem conferre: to be always (often) speaking of anything, usurpare aliquid sermonibus; in ore habere aliquid: to speak of anything, narrare aliquid: to speak good Latin, bene, or scienter, Latine loqui: to speak plainly, loqui plane, dilucide: to speak generally, loqui generatim, universe: to speak quickly, rapidly, linguae celeritatem incitare; volubili esse, lingua (Cic.); praecipitare sermonem (Liv.). Not to speak of all of them, remotis his omnibus: not to speak of this, that, etc., ut taceam, ut sileam, followed by an accusative and infinitive; ut praetermittam, followed by quod or an accusative and infinitive; praeterquam or praeter id, quod, etc.: to wish to speak with anybody, aliquem velle: to speak evil of anybody, secus de aliquo dicere (Cic.), loqui (Tac.): alicui male dicere, probra dicere: not to speak a word with one, non unum verbum commutare cum aliquo (Terentianus). To speak to a person, alloqui, appellare, compellare aliquem. To finish speaking, dicendi or loquendi finem facere (general term): sermonem conficere (to end a conversation): perorare (to come to a conclusion in a speech). Not to suffer anybody to finish speaking, aliquem or alicujus orationem interpellare (☞ not occupare). Let me finish speaking, sine me pervenire quo volo; sine omnia dicam; sine dicam quod coepi. To deliver an oration, orationem habere, agere, or dicere: to speak before the people, orationem dicere ad populum; verba facere apud populum: to speak in public (to an assembly regularly convened), concionari; concionem habere (Cic.). To be very expressive, to bear witness, etc., by circumlocution (e.g., hujus rei testis est pugna Marathonia, speaks for): a speaking argument, example, manifestum, apertum, promtum argumentum, exemplum. A speaking image or picture, imago viva. The thing speaks for itself, res loquitur ipsa (Cic.); si res verba postularet, ac non pro se ipsa loqueretur (Cic., Fam., 3, 2). Speak to; Vid. ACCOST, ADDRESS.