Clamorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• clamour (UK English)

語源

Recorded in English since c. 1385, as 中期英語 clamour, from Old French clamor (modern clameur), from Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).

The verb sense "to silence" may have a distinct (unknown) etymology.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈklæm.ə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈklæm.ɚ/
• Homophone: clammer
• 韻: -æmə(ɹ)

名詞

clamor (countable and uncountable, plural clamors) (American spelling)

1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 17:

     For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]

2. Any loud and continued noise.
3. A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

同意語

• (great outcry): outcry, tumult

派生語

関連する語

動詞

clamor (third-person singular simple present clamors, present participle clamoring, simple past and past participle clamored) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To cry out or demand.

   Anyone who tastes our food seems to clamor for more.

   • c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:

     All the universities are sending in long petitions to restrict their production. Otherwise, they say, mankind will become extinct through lack of fertility. But the R. U. R. shareholders, of course, won't hear of it. All the governments, on the other hand, are clamoring for an increase in production, to raise the standards of their armies. And all the manufacturers in the world are ordering Robots like mad.

2. (transitive) To demand by outcry.

   Thousands of demonstrators clamoring the government's resignation were literally deafening, yet their cries fell in deaf ears

   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 September 2013:

     The distinctness of London has led many to clamor for the capital to pursue its own policies, especially on immigration. The British prime minister, David Cameron, is a Conservative. So is the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. But they have diametrically opposed views on immigration.

3. (intransitive) To become noisy insistently.

   After a confused murmur the audience soon clamored

4. (transitive) To influence by outcry.

   His many supporters successfully clamor his election without a formal vote

5. (obsolete, transitive) To silence.

同意語

• (to cry out): din

アナグラム

• Colmar, molrac

語源

From Old Latin clāmōs, from clāmō (“complain, cry out”) +‎ -or.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkɫaː.mɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈklaː.mor]

名詞

clāmor m (genitive clāmōris); third declension

1. a shout, shouting
2. an acclamation, applause
3. a clamor, cry, outcry, protest
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.222:

     “[...] clāmōrēs simul horrendōs ad sīdera tollit [...].”

     “[The serpents attack Laocoön:] at the same time he raises horrible cries up to heaven [...].”

4. a noise, sound

   Synonyms: clangor, strepitus, fragor

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

関連する語

派生した語

• French: clameur
  • → English: clamor, clamour
• → Italian: clamore
• → Portuguese: clamor
• → Spanish: clamor

参照

• “clamor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clamor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "clamor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “clamor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to elicit loud applause: clamores (coronae) facere, excitare
    
  • to raise a shout, a cry: clamorem tollere (Liv. 3. 28)