κλειτορίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κλείω (kleíō, “I shut in, I inclose”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. suffix?

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kleː.to.rís/ → /kli.toˈris/ → /kli.toˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kleː.to.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kli.toˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kli.toˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kli.toˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kli.toˈris/

Noun

κλειτορῐ́ς • (kleitorís) f (genitive κλειτορῐ́δος); third declension

1. (anatomy) clitoris

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κλειτορῐ́ς; τῆς κλειτορῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κλειτορῐ́ς hē kleitorís	τὼ κλειτορῐ́δε tṑ kleitoríde	αἱ κλειτορῐ́δες hai kleitorídes
Genitive	τῆς κλειτορῐ́δος tês kleitorídos	τοῖν κλειτορῐ́δοιν toîn kleitorídoin	τῶν κλειτορῐ́δων tôn kleitorídōn
Dative	τῇ κλειτορῐ́δῐ têi kleitorídi	τοῖν κλειτορῐ́δοιν toîn kleitorídoin	ταῖς κλειτορῐ́σῐ / κλειτορῐ́σῐν taîs kleitorísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κλειτορῐ́δᾰ tḕn kleitorída	τὼ κλειτορῐ́δε tṑ kleitoríde	τᾱ̀ς κλειτορῐ́δᾰς tā̀s kleitorídas
Vocative	κλειτορῐ́ς kleitorís	κλειτορῐ́δε kleitoríde	κλειτορῐ́δες kleitorídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → English: clitoris
• → French: clitoris
• Greek: κλειτορίδα (kleitorída)

Further reading

• “κλειτορίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κλειτορίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette