acclamatio Latin · revision 33839

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *klh₁-m(o)-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''acclāmātiō''' ''f'' (genitive acclāmātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adclāmātiō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|acclāmō|-tiō|t1=to shout at]], from [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|clāmō|t=to shout]].^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline) De Vaan takes [[m|la|clāmō]] as a verb made from an old noun for a shout, from [[ine-pro|*klh₁-m(o)-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' warns that too sharp and thin a shouting injures the windpipe, and Cicero uses it in the ''De oratore'' of a hostile shout of the people.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is any calling or shouting, as Columella has of a shepherd's calling.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the time of the Republic it was usually a shout of disapproval: Cicero writes of a speaker hindered not only by shouts but by abuse, and of how mild a mere shout is.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Later it was more often a shout of approval, as Livy has of the crowd's cheers, and Suetonius uses it in the same way.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Quintilian distinguishes it, made with the voice, from ''plausus'', made with the hands.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In rhetoric it is the final flourish that crowns a narration or proof, the Greek ''epiphōnēma''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives “exclamation, ceremonial greeting”, and in Medieval Latin it is also a complaint and a claim.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976) English [[m|en|acclamation]] dates from the 1540s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of hostile shouts.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of shouts of approval.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of a final flourish.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – [[m|en|acclamation]] appears in English.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Shouting, calling out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A shout of comment from a crowd, of disapproval or of approval; [[m|en|acclamation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A concluding [[m|en|exclamation]], final flourish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A complaint; a [[m|en|claim]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[acclāmō]]

+ * [[clāmō]]

+ * [[en|acclamation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}