Words Prolix Pro Liks Adjective Tediously Wordy.  Latin Prolixus

Tediously wordy. 

[From Latin prolixus (extended, poured), from liquere (to flow), which is also the source of words such as liquid, liquor, licorice. Now you see the connection -- why consuming liquor makes people prolix.]

"No one has ever called him prolix. At a future-war seminar that he sponsored, Mr. Andrew Marshall mumbled a few introductory words and then sat in silence, eyebrows arched, arms folded, for the remaining two days." - James Der Derian; The Illusion of a Grand Strategy; The New York Times; May 25, 2001.