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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *kl̥h₁-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɫaː.reː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈklaː.re]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''clārē''' (comparative clārius, superlative clārissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|clārus|-ē|t1=loud, clear, bright]], the adverb of the adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|clārus]] to [[itc-pro|*klāro-|t=loud]] and [[ine-pro|*kl̥h₁-ro-|t=loud, sonorous]]; the shift from “loud” to “clear, bright” is also seen in [[goh|hel|t=loud]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has “I'll talk out loud so he hears what I say”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is so as to be clearly heard, out loud, as in Cicero's “in the hearing of all”.^(OLD 2012) It also means clearly to the eye, as Catullus' shining hair, and of seeing, as Plautus' “I see clearly with my eyes”.^(OLD 2012) Of the mind it is clearly or lucidly, as Terence's “tell me plainly”, and Nepos uses it of shining with distinction or honour.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of speaking out loud and seeing clearly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of speaking plainly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a statement heard by all.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos of distinction.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|loudly|alt=Loudly]], [[m|en|audibly]], out loud.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Clearly to the eye, distinctly, brightly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Clearly to the mind, [[m|en|lucidly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With distinction, [[m|en|honourably]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[clarus|alt=clārus]]

+ * [[declaro|alt=dēclārō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}