declamo Latin · revision 34023

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la clāmō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈkɫaː.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈklaː.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēclāmō''' (present infinitive dēclāmāre, perfect active dēclāmāvī, supine dēclāmātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|clāmō|t2=to shout]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Etymonline takes ⟨dē-⟩ as perhaps intensive and traces the verb to [[ine-pro|*kele-|t=to shout]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Cicero on,^(TLL) who in the speech for Roscius says an opponent seemed to declaim something taken from another speech.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a rhetorical term, to make speeches as an oratorical exercise, to practise speaking, to declaim, most frequent in Cicero and Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With an accusative it is to declaim a theme, as Petronius asks what ''contrōversia'' someone declaimed today.^(OLD 2012) It is also to speak violently like an orator, to bluster or bawl.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it once each in Horace, Seneca, Juvenal, Tacitus and Fronto, twice in Ovid and Pliny's letters, three times in Petronius, Martial and Gellius.^(TLL) English ''declaim'' (late 14th century) came through Old French and directly from Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius of declaiming a controversia.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * late 14th century – English ''declaim''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make speeches as an exercise, practise speaking, [[m|en|declaim]]; to declaim a theme.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To speak with violence, [[m|en|bluster]], bawl.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēclāmātiō]]

+ * [[dēclāmātor]]

+ * [[dēclāmitō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[clamo|alt=clāmō]]

+ * [[en|declaim]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}