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clamor

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English

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WOTD – 29 April 2008

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Recorded in English since c. 1385, asMiddle Englishclamour, fromOld Frenchclamor (modernclameur), fromLatinclāmor(a shout, cry), fromclāmō(cry out, complain).

The verb sense "to silence" may have a distinct (unknown) etymology.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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clamor (countable anduncountable,pluralclamors)(American spelling)

  1. A greatoutcry orvociferation;loud andcontinuedshouting orexclamation.
  2. Any loud and continuednoise.
  3. A continuedpublicexpression, often ofdissatisfaction ordiscontent; apopularoutcry.

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Translations

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great outcry or vociferation
loud and continued noise
continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
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Verb

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clamor (third-person singular simple presentclamors,present participleclamoring,simple past and past participleclamored)(American spelling)

  1. (intransitive) Tocry out ordemand.
    Anyone who tastes our food seems toclamor for more.
    • c.1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated byPaul Selver,R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama [], Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1923,→OCLC,Act 2:
      All the universities are sending in long petitions to restrict their production. Otherwise, they say, mankind will become extinct through lack of fertility. But the R. U. R. shareholders, of course, won't hear of it. All the governments, on the other hand, areclamoring for an increase in production, to raise the standards of their armies. And all the manufacturers in the world are ordering Robots like mad.
  2. (transitive) Todemand byoutcry.
    Thousands of demonstratorsclamoring the government's resignation were literally deafening, yet their cries fell in deaf ears
    • 2013 September 28,Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, inNew York Times, retrieved28 September 2013:
      The distinctness of London has led many toclamor for the capital to pursue its own policies, especially on immigration. The British prime minister, David Cameron, is a Conservative. So is the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. But they have diametrically opposed views on immigration.
  3. (intransitive) Tobecomenoisy insistently.
    After a confused murmur the audience soonclamored
  4. (transitive) Toinfluence byoutcry.
    His many supporters successfullyclamor his election without a formal vote
  5. (obsolete, transitive) Tosilence.

Synonyms

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  • (to cry out):din

Translations

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intransitive: to cry out and/or demand
transitive: to demand by outcry
intransitive: to become noisy insistently
transitive: to influence by outcry
transitive: to silence
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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinclāmōrem(a shout, cry), fromclāmō(cry out, complain).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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clamor m orf (pluralclamors)

  1. clamor
    Synonym:clam

References

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  • “clamor” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

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Alternative forms

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  • clāmōs(Old Latin form, found in Ennius and Lucretius)

Etymology

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FromOld Latinclāmōs, fromclāmō(complain, cry out) +‎-or.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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clāmor m (genitiveclāmōris);third declension

  1. ashout,shouting
  2. anacclamation,applause
  3. aclamor,cry,outcry,protest
    • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid2.222:
      “[...]clāmōrēs simul horrendōs ad sīdera tollit [...].”
      “[The serpents attack Laocoön:] at the same time he raises horriblecries up to heaven [...].”
  4. anoise,sound
    Synonyms:clangor,strepitus,fragor

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singularplural
nominativeclāmorclāmōrēs
genitiveclāmōrisclāmōrum
dativeclāmōrīclāmōribus
accusativeclāmōremclāmōrēs
ablativeclāmōreclāmōribus
vocativeclāmorclāmōrēs

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Descendants

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References

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  • clamor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • clamor”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "clamor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • clamor”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
    • to elicit loud applause:clamores (coronae) facere, excitare
    • to raise a shout, a cry:clamorem tollere (Liv. 3. 28)

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromLatinclāmor, clāmōrem.

Noun

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clamoroblique singularm (oblique pluralclamors,nominative singularclamors,nominative pluralclamor)

  1. clamor(continued shouting and uproar)

Descendants

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinclāmōrem.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:cla‧mor

Noun

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clamor m (pluralclamores)

  1. din(loud noise)
    Synonyms:estrépido,algazarra

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Further reading

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinclāmōrem.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /klaˈmoɾ/[klaˈmoɾ]
  • Rhymes:-oɾ
  • Syllabification:cla‧mor

Noun

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clamor m (pluralclamores)

  1. aclamor,shout
  2. aprotest,outcry
  3. a loudnoise

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