Translation
shout, cry; noise, uproar
Examples
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A shout went up in the city.
vocaverunt.
With a great shout they called for the king.
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We heard the shouting of the people.
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After the shouting there was silence.
Clamores .
The shouts of the soldiers rose to the sky.
Clamor, clamoris, m., third declension, the noun of clamo, "to shout". It is rarely one man's voice. Most often it is collective noise: an army raising its battle cry, a theatre applauding, a crowd objecting, and from there it shades easily into uproar, protest and mere din.
Clamorem tollere, "to raise a shout", is the standard phrase, and magno clamore in the ablative is how a writer marks any noisy action. The family is large and productive: clamo with prefixes gives acclamo, exclamo, proclamo and reclamo, and English takes clamour, acclaim, exclaim, proclaim and, through Old French, the legal word claim, which is a shout for what you say is yours.
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