admurmuratio

Forms

admurmurātiō f (genitive admurmurātiōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin admurmurō (“to murmur at”) + -tiō.^[2][3][4] That verb is formed from ad- and murmurō (“to murmur”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *mo/ur-mo/ur-ā- and Proto-Indo-European *mr-mr-, a reduplicated formation that may also be imitative.^[5] Cognate with Ancient Greek μορμύρω (mormúrō, “to roar and boil”) and Lithuanian murmė́ti (“to grumble, murmur”).^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found only in Cicero,^[6][7] first in the speeches against Verres, where the crowd raises a noise and a pleased murmur, grāta contiōnis admurmurātiō.^[6][8]

Semantic evolution

Cicero uses it of a murmur of approval and of disapproval alike.^[8][3] In the speech on Pompey's command he tells the people that their murmur shows they know who did these things,^[8][6] and against Piso he praises those who broke a man's madness not by murmuring but with their voices and shouts.^[8][6] In a letter to his brother Quintus he reports speaking amid many favourable murmurs of the whole senate.^[8][3]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of murmurs of approval and disapproval in the assembly and the senate.^[6][7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A murmur of comment from a crowd.^[2][9]
2. A murmur of approval.^[8][3]
3. A murmur of disapproval.^[8][3]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ Bianchi, Rossella; Lelli, Olga (2014), VOLI: Vocabolario di latino, Florence: Le Monnier
5. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
7. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
8. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
9. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier