clamor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- clamour (UK English)
Etymology edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklæm.ə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈklæm.ɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: clammer
- Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Noun edit
clamor (countable and uncountable, plural clamors) (American spelling)
- A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 17:
- For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]
- Any loud and continued noise.
- A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.
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Translations edit
great outcry or vociferation
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loud and continued noise
continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction; popular outcry
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Verb edit
clamor (third-person singular simple present clamors, present participle clamoring, simple past and past participle clamored) (American spelling)
- (intransitive) To cry out and/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.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To become noisy insistently.
- After a confused murmur the audience soon clamored
- (transitive) To influence by outcry.
- His many supporters successfully clamor his election without a formal vote
- (obsolete, transitive) To silence.
Synonyms edit
- (to cry out): din
Translations edit
to demand by outcry
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to become noisy insistently
to influence by outcry
to silence
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Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin clāmōrem (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
clamor m or f (plural clamors)
References edit
- “clamor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- clāmōs (Old Latin form, found in Ennius and Lucretius)
Etymology edit
From Old Latin clāmōs, from clāmō (“complain, cry out”) + -or.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈklaː.mor/, [ˈkɫ̪äːmɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkla.mor/, [ˈkläːmor]
Noun edit
clāmor m (genitive clāmōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | clāmor | clāmōrēs |
| Genitive | clāmōris | clāmōrum |
| Dative | clāmōrī | clāmōribus |
| Accusative | clāmōrem | clāmōrēs |
| Ablative | clāmōre | clāmōribus |
| Vocative | clāmor | clāmōrēs |
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References edit
- “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)
- to elicit loud applause: clamores (coronae) facere, excitare
Old French edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin clāmor, clāmōrem.
Noun edit
clamor oblique singular, m (oblique plural clamors, nominative singular clamors, nominative plural clamor)
- clamor (continued shouting and uproar)
Descendants edit
Portuguese edit
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Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cla‧mor
Noun edit
clamor m (plural clamores)
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
clamor m (plural clamores)
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Further reading edit
- “clamor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014