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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κλῖμαξ (klîmax) + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kliː.mak.tɛ̌ːr/ → /kli.makˈtir/ → /kli.makˈtir/
Noun
κλῑμᾰκτήρ • (klīmaktḗr) m (genitive κλῑμᾰκτῆρος); third declension
- rung of a ladder
- (astrology) critical point in human life
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “κλιμακτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλιμακτήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κλιμακτήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G5481 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.