κλείς
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Hellenic *klāwī́ds, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“nail, pin, hook - instruments, of old use for locking doors”). Cognate with Latin clāvus (“nail, pin”), Old Church Slavonic ключь (ključĭ, “key”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klěːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /klis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /klis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /klis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /klis/
Noun[edit]
κλείς • (kleís) f (genitive κλειδός); third declension
- Something used to lock/unlock: key, bolt, bar.
- A means to something: key.
- The hook of a clasp.
- collarbone
- The rowing bench of a ship (always in plural).
- A narrow strait or pass.
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κλείς hē kleís |
τὼ κλεῖδε tṑ kleîde |
αἱ κλεῖδες / κλεῖς hai kleîdes / kleîs | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κλειδός tês kleidós |
τοῖν κλειδοῖν toîn kleidoîn |
τῶν κλειδῶν tôn kleidôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κλειδῐ́ têi kleidí |
κλειδοῖν kleidoîn |
ταῖς κλεισῐ́ / κλεισῐ́ν taîs kleisí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κλεῖδᾰ / κλεῖν tḕn kleîda / kleîn |
κλεῖδε kleîde |
τᾱ̀ς κλεῖδᾰς / κλεῖς tā̀s kleîdas / kleîs | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλείς kleís |
κλεῖδε kleîde |
κλεῖδες / κλεῖς kleîdes / kleîs | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Aghwan: 𐕄𐔼𐔾𐕜 (ḳilṭ)
- → Aramaic: קלידא
- Classical Syriac: ܩܠܝܕܐ (qəlīḏāʾ)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַקְלִידָא (ʾaqlīḏāʾ)
- → Arabic: إِقْلِيد (ʾiqlīd)
- → Hebrew: קְלִיד (qəlîḏ)
- → Old Georgian: კლიტჱ (ḳliṭē)
- → Persian: کلید (kelid)
Further reading[edit]
- κλείς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κλείς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κλείς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2807 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- collar-bone idem, page 143.
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