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“declamatory” in Latin
dēclāmātōriusdeclamatory, rhetoricaltumidusswollen, swelling, rising high, protuberant, tumid, dilated, bulging; causing to swell; excited, violent, exasperated; pturgidusturgid, swollen, inflated, distended; bombastic, turgidīnflōto inflate; to blow into; to play a wind instrument; to puff up, swell; to be proud, haughtyprōnūntiōto proclaim, declare, announce; to pronounce, sound out, articulate
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
declamatory
declamatorius (pertaining to declamation; i. e., rhetorical exercises in the schools): tumidus; turgidus; inflatus (inflated). His style is declamatory, oratio turget atque inflata est: their delivery is refined without being unnatural or declamatory, neque ita prorsus, ut nos vulgo loquimur, pronuntiant [or neque sine arte pronuntiant], neque procul tamen a natura recedunt (Quint. 2, 10, 13). A vehement and declamatory mode of delivery should be avoided, actio ita temperanda est, ne, dum actoris captamus elegantiam, perdamus viri boni et gravis auctoritatem (Quint., lib. 11, extr.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for declamatory?
- The usual Latin words for “declamatory” are dēclāmātōrius, tumidus, turgidus; also īnflō, prōnūntiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.