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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /klepˈsiː.na/,
Proper noun
Clepsīna m sg (genitive Clepsīnae); first declension
- A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
- Lucius Genucius Clepsina, a Roman consul
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Clepsina”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray