clamorous
Meaningfull of shouting
Common meaning: loud and insistent
- clamto shout, call outLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 348 · scan
- oragent ending: the doer, or the device that does it
- ousadjective ending: full of, having
Journey through time
- Latinclāmō, clāmāre‘to shout, call out’
- Frenchclamur
- Englishclamorous‘loud and insistent’ · today
clam also in: declaimexclaimdisclaimacclamation
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin clāmō ‘to shout, call out’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry clāmō, p. 348 · dictionary scan
Roots
- clāmō, clāmāre Latin “to shout, call out”
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