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clam lcam calm aclm lacm alcm clma lcma cmla mcla lmca mlca caml acml cmal mcal amcl macl lamc almc lmac mlac amlc malc

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Definitions and meaning of clam

clam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæm/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [kleəm]
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English clam (“pincers, vice, clamp”), from Old English clamm (“bond, fetter, grip, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“press, squeeze together”). The sense “dollar” may allude to wampum. The sense "Scientologist" alludes to the Scientologist belief that human thetans (souls) previously inhabited clams.

Noun

clam (plural clams)

1. A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
2. A type of strong pincers or forceps.
3. A kind of vise, usually of wood.
4. (US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A dollar.
5. (slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
6. (slang, vulgar) A vagina.
7. (slang) In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note.
8. (informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
10. (dated, US, slang) mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)

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Translations

Verb

clam (third-person singular simple present clams, present participle clamming, simple past and past participle clammed)

1. To dig for clams.

Derived terms

• clam up

Translations

See also

• clammy

Etymology 2

Noun

clam (plural clams)

1. A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

Verb

clam (third-person singular simple present clams, present participle clamming, simple past and past participle clammed)

1. To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

Etymology 3

From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”).

Alternative forms

• clem

Adjective

clam (comparative clammer, superlative clammest)

1. (obsolete) clammy.

Noun

clam

1. clamminess; moisture

Verb

clam (third-person singular simple present clams, present participle clamming, simple past and past participle clammed)

2. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
3. To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

Etymology 4

Noun

clam (plural clams)

1. (rowing) Alternative form of CLAM

Etymology 5

Noun

clam (plural clams)

1. Alternative form of clem (“to starve”)

Anagrams

• ALCM, CAML, Caml, Malc, calm

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin clamor, possibly borrowed through Old French clamor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈklam]
• Rhymes: -am

Noun

clam m (plural clams)

1. clamor

   Synonym: clamor

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *klām perhaps from the accusative case of Proto-Indo-European *ḱleh₂- (“concealment”) from *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). Cognate with Latin cēlō and others.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /klam/, [kɫ̪ä̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /klam/, [kläm]

Adverb

clam (not comparable)

1. clandestinely, secretly, privately

   Antonyms: publice, apertē, vulgō, palam

2. stealthily

Derived terms

• clanculō
• clanculum

Related terms

• clanculārius
• clandestīnō
• clandestīnus

Preposition

clam (+ accusative, ablative)

1. (with accusative or, rarely, ablative) without the knowledge of, unknown to
   • 163 B.C.E. Terence, Heauton Timorumenos, Act II, Scene II:

References

• “clam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• clam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Alternative forms

• (NE dialects) cloam

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *klaim (“mortar, clay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɑːm/

Noun

clām m

1. mud

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *klamos (“sick, leprous”). Cognate with Welsh claf (“sick, ill”).

Noun

clam m or f

1. leper

Usage notes

The noun's gender depends on the leper's gender. If the leper is male, it is masculine. If the leper is female, it is feminine.

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: clam

Mutation

References

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 clam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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