clepsydra

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Etymology

From Latin clepsydra, from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra), from κλέπτειν (kléptein, “to steal”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).

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Noun

clepsydra (plural clepsydras or clepsydrae)

  1. Synonym of water clock, especially (historical) ancient Greek and Roman forms.
    • 1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 124:
      "The dull, unflavoured drops from life's clepsydra".
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 856:
      They sat among the choiring clepsydras of the evening garden, time elapsing in a dozen ways, allowing their cigars to go out, keeping a companionable silence.

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Latin

 clepsydra on Latin Wikipedia

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra, “pipette, water clock”).

Pronunciation

Noun

clepsydra f (genitive clepsydrae); first declension

  1. water clock, clepsydra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative clepsydra clepsydrae
Genitive clepsydrae clepsydrārum
Dative clepsydrae clepsydrīs
Accusative clepsydram clepsydrās
Ablative clepsydrā clepsydrīs
Vocative clepsydra clepsydrae

Descendants

  • English: clepsydra

References

  • “clepsydra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “clepsydra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • clepsydra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • clepsydra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “clepsydra”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “clepsydra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “clepsydra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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