κλών
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Probably related to κλάδος (kládos, “branch, twig”) and κλαστός (klastós, “broken off”), as in clastic.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /klon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /klon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /klon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /klon/
Noun
κλών • (klṓn) m (genitive κλωνός); third declension
- twig, spray, slip
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ κλών; τοῦ κλωνός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κλών ho klṓn | τὼ κλῶνε tṑ klône | οἱ κλῶνες hoi klônes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κλωνός toû klōnós | τοῖν κλωνοῖν toîn klōnoîn | τῶν κλωνῶν tôn klōnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κλωνῐ́ tôi klōní | τοῖν κλωνοῖν toîn klōnoîn | τοῖς κλωσῐ́ / κλωσῐ́ν toîs klōsí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κλῶνᾰ tòn klôna | τὼ κλῶνε tṑ klône | τοὺς κλῶνᾰς toùs klônas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλών klṓn | κλῶνε klône | κλῶνες klônes | ||||||||||
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References
- “κλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κλών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bough idem, page 90.
- branch idem, page 93.
- sprig idem, page 805.
- stem idem, page 815.
- stick idem, page 816.
- tendril idem, page 862.
- twig idem, page 903.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN