κλειτορίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλείω (kleíō, “I shut in, I inclose”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kleː.to.rís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kli.toˈris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kli.toˈris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kli.toˈris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kli.toˈris/
Noun
κλειτορῐ́ς • (kleitorís) f (genitive κλειτορῐ́δος); third declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms borrowed back into Ancient Greek
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
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