Clamare

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To proclaim or shout aloud with force; to call out loudly as an appeal or demand; to utter an emphatic or passionate cry
2. To vocalize strongly in order to attract attention; to issue a loud call or announcement; to express forcefully by shouting
3. To raise one's voice in a loud declaration; to call emphatically for something; to emit a strong or urgent cry

Etymology: "Clamare" is a Latin verb meaning "to cry out" or "to call out loudly," and it is the source of English "clamor" and "claim" through different routes. Its root is an imitative sound, and the Latin verb is generally traced to a Proto-Indo-European base for shouting. The verb was used of loud calls for help, public protest, and the noise of animals and crowds, which is the sense it kept in later Latin. The most surprising link is the English word "claim." It did not come directly from "clamare" but through Old French "clamer," which carried the legal sense of demanding something by formal declaration. English "claim" was borrowed from Old French in the 1300s and kept that sense of formally asserting a right. So a word that once meant shouting for attention became the everyday term for demanding what is yours.

Synonyms: call, shout, cry, exclaim

Antonyms: whisper, murmur, silence