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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unclear. It has been connected with Tyrolese German Lutter (“green alder”). The suffix -θρη is from the same PIE root as -τρον.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɛ̌ː.tʰra/ → /ˈkli.θra/ → /ˈkli.θra/
Noun
κλήθρα • (klḗthra) f (genitive κλήθρᾱς); first declension
- alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Inflection
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References
- “κλήθρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κλήθρα 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, page 714
- ^ The Proto-Indo-European Instrument Noun Suffix *-tlom and its Variants, by Birgit Anette Olsen (1988), 7.3