clan
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæn/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: Klan
- Rhymes: -æn
Noun
clan (plural clans)
- (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
- Coordinate term: lineage
- Hyponym: descent group
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
- Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
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- (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
- A badger colony.
Derived terms
- clan control
- clan endogamy
- clan mate
- clannish
- matriclan
- patriclan
Descendants
- → Catalan: clan
- → Dutch: clan
- → French: clan
- → Turkish: klan
- → Galician: clan
- → German: Clan
- → Italian: clan
- → Polish: klan
- → Russian: клан (klan)
- → Portuguese: clan, clã
- → Spanish: clan
Translations
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See also
- clan lab
Anagrams
- Lanc, NLCA, NaCl
Catalan
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /klɛn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: clan
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun
clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)
- clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
- (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan
Descendants
- Afrikaans: clan
- → Indonesian: klan
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”), and therefore a doublet of plante.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɑ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Descendants
- → Turkish: klan
Further reading
- “clan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology
from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of planta.
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- clan
Synonyms
- (clan): tribo
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English clan, from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of pianta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklan/, /ˈklɛn/[1]
- Rhymes: -an, -ɛn
- Hyphenation: clàn
Noun
clan m (invariable)
- clan
- team
- gang
References
- clan in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
Noun
clan m (plural clans)
- Alternative spelling of clã
Romanian
Etymology
From French clan.
Noun
clan n (plural clanuri)
- clan
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) clan | clanul | (niște) clanuri | clanurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) clan | clanului | (unor) clanuri | clanurilor |
| vocative | clanule | clanurilor | ||
Spanish
Etymology
from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of planta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklan/ [ˈklãn]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: clan
Noun
clan m (plural clanes)
- clan
Further reading
- “clan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014