conclamatio Latin · revision 35936

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=la clāmō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conclāmātiō''' ''f'' (genitive conclāmātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|conclāmō|-tiō|t1=to shout together]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) That verb is [[m|la|con-]] with [[m|la|clāmō|t=to shout]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan takes to be made from a lost noun for “shout” and traces to [[itc-pro|*klām-o/ā-]] and [[ine-pro|*klh₁-m(o)-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Caesar has it first:^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) after a victory, Curio is hailed as ''imperator'' by the shout of the whole army.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a rare word, absent from Cicero,^(Lewis & Short 1879) for the shouting or crying of many people together, of joy or of grief: Seneca speaks of the cries of thousands dying under the sword, and Tacitus uses the plural for loud laments.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In particular it was the ritual calling of a dead person's name, after which, Servius says, bodies were burned.^(TLL) The Code of Justinian forbids such shouting, and in late texts it can also imply agreement, a confirmation made as if with one voice.^(TLL)

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+ Medieval Latin used it for uproar and for acclamation or a declaration made aloud in common,^(MLW)^(DMLBS) and Niermeyer records the sense “legal complaint”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it for the acclamation of an army.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it for the cries of the dying.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses the plural for laments.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Servius mentions the last ''conclāmātiō'' before cremation.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1061 – Köbler records it in a charter.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A shouting or crying together, usually in [[m|en|grief]]; a loud [[m|en|lament]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An [[m|en|acclamation]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An uproar; a common declaration made aloud.^(MLW)^(DMLBS)

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

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}