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declare: [14] To declare something is to make it ‘clear’. English acquired the word from Latin dēclārāre ‘make clear’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and clārāre ‘make clear’, a derivative of clārus ‘clear’.
=> claret, clear
declarant (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1680s, from French déclarant, from Latin declarantem (nominative declarans), present participle of declarare (see declare).
declaration (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
mid-14c., "action of stating," from Old French declaration, from Latin declarationem (nominative declaratio), noun of action from past participle stem of declarare (see declare). Meaning "proclamation, public statement" is from 1650s. Declaration of independence is recorded from 1776 (the one by the British American colonies seems to be the first so called; though the phrase is not in the document itself, it was titled that from the first in the press).
declarative (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
mid-15c., from French déclaratif and directly from Late Latin declarativus, from past participle stem of Latin declarare (see declare).
declaratory (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
mid-15c., from Medieval Latin declaratorius, from Latin declarator, from declarare (see declare).
declare (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
early 14c., from Old French declarer "explain, elucidate," or directly from Latin declarare "make clear, reveal, disclose, announce," from de- intensive prefix (see de-) + clarare "clarify," from clarus "clear" (see clear (adj.)). Related: Declared; declaring.