κλοιός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κλῳός (klōiós)

Etymology

Often connected to κλείς (kleís, “key”). Alternatively, the word could be .

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kloi̯.ós/ → /klyˈos/ → /kliˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kloi̯.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /klyˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /klyˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /klyˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kliˈos/

Noun

κλοιός • (kloiós) m (genitive κλοιοῦ); second declension

1. dog collar
2. wooden collar worn by prisoners
3. collar of gold, as an ornament

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κλοιός; τοῦ κλοιοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κλοιός ho kloiós	τὼ κλοιώ tṑ kloiṓ	οἱ κλοιοί hoi kloioí
Genitive	τοῦ κλοιοῦ toû kloioû	τοῖν κλοιοῖν toîn kloioîn	τῶν κλοιῶν tôn kloiôn
Dative	τῷ κλοιῷ tôi kloiôi	τοῖν κλοιοῖν toîn kloioîn	τοῖς κλοιοῖς toîs kloioîs
Accusative	τὸν κλοιόν tòn kloión	τὼ κλοιώ tṑ kloiṓ	τοὺς κλοιούς toùs kloioús
Vocative	κλοιέ kloié	κλοιώ kloiṓ	κλοιοί kloioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κλοιόπους (kloiópous)
• κλοιώτης (kloiṓtēs)

 

References

• “κλοιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κλοιός 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