κλεῖθρον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κλείω (kleíō, “to close”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klêː.tʰron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkli.tʰron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkli.θron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkli.θron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkli.θron/
Noun
κλεῖθρον • (kleîthron) n (genitive κλείθρου); second declension
- A bar for closing a door
- The boom of an harbour
- (anatomy) The entrance of the windpipe
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κλεῖθρον; τοῦ κλείθρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κλεῖθρον tò kleîthron | τὼ κλείθρω tṑ kleíthrō | τᾰ̀ κλεῖθρᾰ tà kleîthra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κλείθρου toû kleíthrou | τοῖν κλείθροιν toîn kleíthroin | τῶν κλείθρων tôn kleíthrōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κλείθρῳ tôi kleíthrōi | τοῖν κλείθροιν toîn kleíthroin | τοῖς κλείθροις toîs kleíthrois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κλεῖθρον tò kleîthron | τὼ κλείθρω tṑ kleíthrō | τᾰ̀ κλεῖθρᾰ tà kleîthra | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλεῖθρον kleîthron | κλείθρω kleíthrō | κλεῖθρᾰ kleîthra | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κλειθρία (kleithría)
- κλειθρίον (kleithríon)
- κλειθριώδης (kleithriṓdēs)
- κλειθροποιός (kleithropoiós)
Descendants
- English: cleithrum
Further reading
- κλεῖθρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κλεῖθρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette