κλών

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably related to κλάδος (kládos, “branch, twig”) and κλαστός (klastós, “broken off”), as in clastic.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /klɔ̌ːn/ → /klon/ → /klon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /klɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /klon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /klon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /klon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /klon/

Noun

κλών • (klṓn) m (genitive κλωνός); third declension

1. twig, spray, slip

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κλών; τοῦ κλωνός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κλών ho klṓn	τὼ κλῶνε tṑ klône	οἱ κλῶνες hoi klônes
Genitive	τοῦ κλωνός toû klōnós	τοῖν κλωνοῖν toîn klōnoîn	τῶν κλωνῶν tôn klōnôn
Dative	τῷ κλωνῐ́ tôi klōní	τοῖν κλωνοῖν toîn klōnoîn	τοῖς κλωσῐ́ / κλωσῐ́ν toîs klōsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν κλῶνᾰ tòn klôna	τὼ κλῶνε tṑ klône	τοὺς κλῶνᾰς toùs klônas
Vocative	κλών klṓn	κλῶνε klône	κλῶνες klônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “κλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κλών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bough idem, page 90.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • sprig idem, page 805.
  • stem idem, page 815.
  • stick idem, page 816.
  • tendril idem, page 862.
  • twig idem, page 903.
• 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