clangor Latin · revision 35672

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɫaŋ.ɡɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈklaŋ.ɡor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''clangor''' ''m'' (genitive clangōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|clangō|-or|t1=to clang, ring]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|clangō]] is compared with [[grc|κλαγγή|tr=klangḗ|t=shrill sound]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) and Pokorny puts both under a root of crying and sounding, [[ine-pro|*klang-]].^(Pokorny 1959) Servius took the Latin word for Greek, from that noun, and the grammarians count it among words made from a sound.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the OLD record it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) in verses quoted in the ''Tusculan Disputations'', of the loud cry of a bird of prey (''clangorem fundit vastum'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is mostly a poetic word, also found in Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is the crying or the noise of birds, as they scream or fly, in Cicero's verse, Livy, Ovid and Pliny the Elder,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) the baying of dogs in Grattius,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and a shrill human cry of mourning in the declamations attributed to Quintilian.^(OLD 2012) Virgil uses it for the blare of trumpets and for the clang of iron.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means noise, shouting or clanging.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval writers used it for trumpet blasts and the ringing of a church bell.^(DMLBS) English took ''clangor'' over in the 1590s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in verse of a bird's cry.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of trumpets and of clanging iron.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of birds flying with loud cries.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English borrows it as [[m|en|clangor]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The crying, screaming or noise of [[m|en|bird|alt=birds]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # The baying of dogs; a shrill human cry.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The [[m|en|blare]] or blast of trumpets.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # The [[m|en|clang]] or ringing of iron.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}