Where does “declaim” come from?
Declaim comes from Middle French declamer, from Latin declamo meaning to speak out, derived from Latin clamo meaning to shout, with the prefix de-.
declaim (English): To object to something vociferously; to rail...
Definitions
- To object to something vociferously; to rail...
Ancestry of “declaim”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | declamer | — |
| 2 | Latin | dēclāmō | to practise speaking, declaim, make speeches |
| 3 | Latin | dē- | of; from |
| 4 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 5 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 6 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |