clango

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklan.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -anɡo
  • Hyphenation: clàn‧go

Verb

clango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of clangere

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *glag- (to make a noise, clap, twitter), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (to roop, scream, shout). Cognate with English clack and Ancient Greek κλαγγή (klangḗ, shrill sound).

Pronunciation

Verb

clangō (present infinitive clangere, perfect active clanguī); third conjugation, no supine stem, third person-only in the passive

  1. to clang
  2. (transitive) to sound out (a signal, etc., of a trumpet)

Conjugation

References

  • clango”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • clango in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “gal-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 350-351