κλῆμα
See also: κλήμα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κλᾶμμα (klâmma)
Etymology
Connected with κλάω (kláō, “to break”), but the meaning doesn't fit a sprout. Beekes suggests a Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "pregrc" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. origin.
Pronunciation
- (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
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
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
- κληματίζω (klēmatízō)
- κληματικός (klēmatikós)
- κλημάτινος (klēmátinos)
- κληματίς (klēmatís)
- κληματῖτις (klēmatîtis)
- κληματόδεσις (klēmatódesis)
- κληματοειδής (klēmatoeidḗs)
- κληματόεις (klēmatóeis)
- κληματόομαι (klēmatóomai)
- κληματώδης (klēmatṓdēs)
Descendants
- Greek: κλήμα (klíma)
Further reading
- “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