cló

See also: clo, clò, CLO, and cło

Irish

Alternative forms

• clódh (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish cló (“metal spike, nail; imprint, impression; form, shape, appearance; print of a book”), from Proto-Celtic *klāwos (compare Breton klao, Welsh clo), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, crook, peg”) (compare Latin clāvis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klˠoː/

Noun

cló m (genitive singular cló, nominative plural clónna)

1. font, script
2. print, impression
3. form
4. (literary) nail, spike
5. (medicine) tent (for a wound)

Declension

Declension of cló

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cló clónna Vocative a chló a chlónna Genitive cló clónna Dative cló clónna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cló na clónna Genitive an chló na gclónna Dative leis an gcló don chló leis na clónna

Synonyms

• (font): clófhoireann
• (print): prionta
• (form): riocht
• (tent): cló gona

Derived terms

• claonchló m (“negative”)
• cló-eagar m (“composition”)
• cló-eagraigh (“compose”, verb)
• cló-eagraí m (“compositor”)
• cló-inneall m (“printing-machine”)
• clóbhuail, clóigh (“print”, verb)
• clóchuir (“typeset”, verb)
• clóchur m (“typesetting”)
• clódóir m (“printer; dyer”)
• clóghrafach (“typographical”, adjective)
• clóghrafaíocht f (“typography”)
• clóghrafóir m (“typographer”)
• clólann f (“printing works, print room”)
• clólíne f (“line of type”)
• clómhiotal m (“type metal”)
• clópháipéar m (“printing paper”)
• clóphreas m (“printing press”)
• clóscríbhinn f (“typescript”)
• clóscríbhneoireacht f (“typewriting, typing”)
• clóscríobh (“type, typewrite”, verb)
• clóscríobhaí m (“typist”)
• clóscríobhán m (“typewriter”)
• clóscríobh m (“typing, typewriting”)
• fótachló m (“phototype”)
• iarnchló m (“ferrotype”)

 

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cló”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cló”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN