κλῆμα
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See also: κλήμα
Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- κλᾶμμα (klâmma)
Etymology[edit]
Connected with κλάω (kláō, “to break”), but the meaning doesn't fit a sprout. Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klɛ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkle̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkli.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkli.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkli.ma/
Noun[edit]
κλῆμᾰ • (klêma) n (genitive κλήμᾰτος); third declension
- twig, branch, tendril of the vine
- (botany) sprout, shoot
- cutting, slip
- vine staff, cane carried by Roman centurions
Declension[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κλῆμᾰ tò klêma |
τὼ κλήμᾰτε tṑ klḗmate |
τᾰ̀ κλήμᾰτᾰ tà klḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κλήμᾰτος toû klḗmatos |
τοῖν κλημᾰ́τοιν toîn klēmátoin |
τῶν κλημᾰ́των tôn klēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κλήμᾰτῐ tôi klḗmati |
τοῖν κλημᾰ́τοιν toîn klēmátoin |
τοῖς κλήμᾰσῐ / κλήμᾰσῐν toîs klḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κλῆμᾰ tò klêma |
τὼ κλήμᾰτε tṑ klḗmate |
τᾰ̀ κλήμᾰτᾰ tà klḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλῆμᾰ klêma |
κλήμᾰτε klḗmate |
κλήμᾰτᾰ klḗmata | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
- κληματίζω (klēmatízō)
- κληματικός (klēmatikós)
- κλημάτινος (klēmátinos)
- κληματίς (klēmatís)
- κληματῖτις (klēmatîtis)
- κληματόδεσις (klēmatódesis)
- κληματοειδής (klēmatoeidḗs)
- κληματόεις (klēmatóeis)
- κληματόομαι (klēmatóomai)
- κληματώδης (klēmatṓdēs)
Descendants[edit]
- Greek: κλήμα (klíma)
Further reading[edit]
- “κλῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κλῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
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