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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “I bend, lean”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klîː.maks/ → /ˈkli.maks/ → /ˈkli.maks/
Noun
κλῖμᾰξ • (klîmax) f (genitive κλῑ́μᾰκος); third declension
- ladder
- staircase
- torture instrument shaped like a ladder
- a certain wrestling move
- (rhetoric) climax
- the blocks of wood placed above the wheels of a chariot
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References
- “κλῖμαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλῖμαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κλῖμαξ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κλῖμαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κλῖμαξ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κλῖμαξ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- κλῖμαξ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.