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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Usually derived from κέλομαι (kélomai, “to urge, exhort”). Beekes instead thinks it’s a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kló.nos/ → /ˈklo.nos/ → /ˈklo.nos/
Noun
κλόνος • (klónos) m (genitive κλόνου); second declension
- confused motion, turmoil, battle-rout
- trembling, confusion, agitation
- (in physiological sense) agitation, of wind in the bowels
- (of the body) shaking, agitation, contraction
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Further reading
- “κλόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κλόνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κλόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κλόνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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