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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French clou. Doublet of clove.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kluː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uː
- Homophones: clue, clew
Noun
[edit]clou (plural clous)
- Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.
- 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- But had he not refused her the wherewithal to remember him—the pearls she needed as the clou of her dear collection, the great relic among relics?
- 1994, Richard Abel, The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914, page 70:
- Partly because they were constructed of multiple shot-scenes and recorded exclusively in LS, their elaborate decors acquired an even more privileged role — as tableaux and clous of spectacle — much in the manner of late nineteenth-century French stage productions […]
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]clou
- inflection of cloure:
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clou m (plural clous)
Synonyms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clou
- highlight (high point of an occasion, press release etc.)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of clou (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | clou | clout | |
genitive | cloun | clouiden clouitten | |
partitive | clouta | clouita | |
illative | clouhun | clouihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | clou | clout | |
accusative | nom. | clou | clout |
gen. | cloun | ||
genitive | cloun | clouiden clouitten | |
partitive | clouta | clouita | |
inessive | cloussa | clouissa | |
elative | clousta | clouista | |
illative | clouhun | clouihin | |
adessive | cloulla | clouilla | |
ablative | cloulta | clouilta | |
allative | cloulle | clouille | |
essive | clouna | clouina | |
translative | clouksi | clouiksi | |
abessive | cloutta | clouitta | |
instructive | — | clouin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “clou”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French clou, from Latin clāvus, from Proto-Italic *klāwos, from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clou m (plural clous)
- nail (metal pin)
- clove (of garlic)
- (figurative) highlight, climax
- (usually in the plural, des clous) not likely, no way, you'll be so lucky
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “clou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French clou. Doublet of chiavo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clou m (invariable)
- (also relational) highlight (high point of an occasion)
- la mossa clou della partita ― the standout move of the match
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]clou
- Alternative form of clough
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French clou.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]clou n (indeclinable)
- clou (something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest)
Further reading
[edit]- clou in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]clou n (plural clou-uri)
Declension
[edit]Declension of clou
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) clou | clouul | (niște) clou-uri | clou-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) clou | clouului | (unor) clou-uri | clou-urilor |
vocative | clouule | clou-urilor |
Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /klɔɨ̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /klɔi̯/
Adjective
[edit]clou (feminine singular clou, plural clou, equative cloued, comparative clouach, superlative clouaf)
- (South Wales) fast, quick
Synonyms
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