Italian

Noun

reclamo m ‎(plural reclami)

1. A complaint, a claim.
2. stink

Synonyms

• lamentela, protesta, lagnanza

Related terms

• reclamare

Verb

reclamo

1. First-person singular present tense of reclamare

Anagrams

• calmerò, Carmelo, clamerò, clamore, colmare, colmerà

Latin

Etymology

From re- +‎ clāmō ‎(“cry out, shout”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈklaː.moː/

Verb

reclāmō ‎(present infinitive reclāmāre, perfect active reclāmāvī, supine reclāmātum); first conjugation

1. I cry out, exclaim, protest or shout against, contradict loudly.
   • 44 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Philippicae 5.8.22

     cum eius promissis legiones fortissimae reclamassent […]

     For when those gallant legions had cried out against his promises […]

   • 12/05 2012, Herimannus Novocomensis, Ephemeris

     Reclamatur in Ucraina.

     There is being protested in Ukraine.

2. I call for someone back, again, aloud or repeatedly.
   • ? - c. 90 AD, Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.172

     famulae pariter clamore supremo / in vacuos dant verba notos dominamque reclamant / nomine

     With them the handmaidens raise cries of last farewell and scatter words upon the empty breeze, as by name they call mistress back again.

3. (poetic) I reverberate, reecho, resound.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 3.261

     nempe abruptis turbata procellis / nocte natat caeca serus freta, quem super ingens / porta tonat caeli, et scopulis inlisa reclamant / aequora

     See how he swims the straits in a confusion of steep waterspouts, late in the dark of night. Heaven’s mighty doorway thunders above him, and the waves striking the cliffs reecho.

Inflection

Derived terms

• reclāmātiō
• reclāmitō

Related terms

Descendants

References

• reclamo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• reclamo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “reclamo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the spectators protest: theatra reclamant
    

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -amu

Verb

reclamo

1. first-person singular present indicative of reclamar

Spanish

Noun

reclamo m ‎(plural reclamos)

1. complaint
2. advertisement
3. come-on

Verb

reclamo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of reclamar.