declamatio Latin · revision 33564

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *klh1-m(o)-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deː.kɫaːˈmaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [de.klaˈmat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēclāmātiō''' ''f'' (genitive dēclāmātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dēclāmō|-tiō|t1=to declaim]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|dēclāmō]] is a compound of [[m|la|dē-]] and [[m|la|clāmō|t=to shout]], which de Vaan takes as a verb made from a lost noun for a shout, going back to [[itc-pro|*klām-o/ā-]] and [[ine-pro|*klh1-m(o)-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest quotation is from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', which speaks of the practice of declamation, ''exercitatio declamationis''.^(OLD 2012) Köbler records it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is the delivery of a set speech as an exercise in oratory.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero has it of his daily declamation practice, and it is most frequent in Quintilian, who defines declamation as a rehearsal for the speeches of the law courts.^(Lewis & Short 1879) By metonymy it came to mean the speech itself, a piece on an invented theme composed for the schools of rhetoric, as in the elder Seneca;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Juvenal even uses it of a person who serves as such a theme.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In a bad sense it is loud, ranting talk or a declamatory manner: Cicero speaks of contending with commonplace declamation, and Tacitus of declamation applied to themes remote from reality.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In Medieval Latin it also meant hooting, a challenge, a legal claim and a proclamation,^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) and the MLW records it for an outcry, a complaint and a sermon.^(MLW) Du Cange explains it as a summons to court or a claim for the return of property.^(Du Cange 1883)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of daily declamation and of empty declamatory talk.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it often for the exercise of the rhetorical schools.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 866 – Köbler records it in a charter.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The delivery of a set speech as an oratorical exercise, [[m|en|declamation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A speech on an invented theme composed for the schools of [[m|en|rhetoric]]; the theme itself.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A declamatory manner of speaking; loud, ranting talk.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|hooting]]; a challenge; a legal claim; a [[m|en|proclamation]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An outcry, a complaint; a [[m|en|sermon]].^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēclāmātiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[clāmō]]

+ * [[dēclāmātor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}