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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly an alteration of cluēns, present active participle of clueō (“I am called, named, esteemed”), or more likely from clīnō (“to lean”). Ultimately from the root *ḱel- (“to incline”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cliēns m or f (genitive clientis); third declension
- customer
- client, retainer, follower
- companion, favorite
- (of a nation) ally, vassal
- one under the protection of a particular deity
- cliēns Bacchī — "client of Bacchus"
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “cliens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cliens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cliens 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)
- cliens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cliens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin