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clamor

English

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Etymology

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Recorded in English since c. 1385, as Middle English clamour, from Old French clamor (modern clameur), from Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”); the sense to silence may have a distinct (unknown) etymology.

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Noun

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clamor (countable and uncountable, plural clamors) (American spelling)

  1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
  2. Any loud and continued noise.
  3. A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

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Derived terms

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₁- (0 c, 49 e)

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Verb

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clamor (third-person singular simple present clamors, present participle clamoring, simple past and past participle clamored) (American spelling)

  1. (intransitive) To cry out or demand.
    Anyone who tastes our food seems to clamor for more.
    • c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →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, are clamoring 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) To demand by outcry.
    Thousands of demonstrators clamoring 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”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 September 2013:
      The distinctness of London has led many to clamor 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) To become noisy insistently.
    After a confused murmur the audience soon clamored
  4. (transitive) To influence by outcry.
    His many supporters successfully clamor his election without a formal vote
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To silence.

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  • (to cry out): din

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin clāmōrem (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).

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Noun

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clamor m or f (plural clamors)

  1. clamor
    Synonym: clam

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

Latin

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

Etymology

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From Old Latin clāmōs, from clāmō (“complain, cry out”) +‎ -or.

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Noun

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clāmor m (genitive clāmōris); third declension

  1. a shout, shouting
  2. an acclamation, applause
  3. a clamor, cry, outcry, protest
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.222:
      “[...] clāmōrēs simul horrendōs ad sīdera tollit [...].”
      “[The serpents attack Laocoön:] at the same time he raises horrible cries up to heaven [...].”
  4. a noise, sound
    Synonyms: clangor, strepitus, fragor

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative clāmor clāmōrēs
genitive clāmōris clāmōrum
dative clāmōrī clāmōribus
accusative clāmōrem clāmōrēs
ablative clāmōre clāmōribus
vocative clāmor clāmōrēs
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Descendants

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  • French: clameur
  • → Italian: clamore
  • → Portuguese: clamor
  • → Spanish: clamor

References

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  • “clamor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “clamor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • clamor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • clamor in Gaffiot, 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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From Latin clāmor, clāmōrem.

Noun

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clamor oblique singular, m (oblique plural clamors, nominative singular clamors, nominative plural clamor)

  1. clamor (continued shouting and uproar)

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin clāmōrem.

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  • Hyphenation: cla‧mor

Noun

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clamor m (plural clamores)

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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin clāmōrem.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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clamor m (plural clamores)

  1. a clamor, shout
  2. a protest, outcry
  3. a loud noise

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