mowodworna

Old Polish

Etymology

From mowa + -o- + dwór + -na. First attested in c. 1492. Displaced by Polish krasomówstwo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /mɔvɔdvɔrnaː/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /mɔvɔdvɔrnɒ/

Noun

mowodworna f

  1. oratory, eloquence
    • 1915 [c. 1492], Jan Łoś, editor, Przegląd językowych zabytków staropolskich do r. 1543, page 148:
      Mowodworna rhetorica
      [Mowodworna retoryka]

References

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