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Italian
Noun
clino m (plural clini)
- (especially in combination) cline
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kleināō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-, from *ḱel- (“to incline”) + *-éyti (*éy-present suffix). Although clearly a nasal present, a nasal present of Proto-Indo-European date would be *ḱl̥-n-i-, which would not give the attested Latin form. According to De Vaan,[1] the nasal present was re-formed as *ḱli-n- in pre-Italic, a change shared also by other Indo-European languages. The long vowel could be by analogy with the perfect, and may be of Italic date.
Pronunciation
Verb
clīnō (present infinitive clīnāre, perfect active clīnāvī, supine clīnātum); first conjugation
- (rare, nonstandard except as past participle) to bend, incline
- 1st century BC, Titus Lucretius Carus; in: De rerum natura libri sex: quibus interpretationem et notas addidit Thomas Creech, collegii omnium animarum olim socius. Accedunt variae lectiones IV. edd. antiquissimarum necnon annotationes R. Bentleii, Oxonii, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1818, page 85f.:
Quare etiam atque etiam paullum clinare necesse 'st
Corpora, nec plus quam minimum, ne fingere motus
Obliquos videamur, et id res vera refutet.
(In note 243 to this quote the editor clarifies: “Alii, inclinare; sed quis clinare rejiceret, qui clinamen, v. 292. admittit?”)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1687, Jean-Jacques Magnet, Pharmacopoea Schroedero-Hoffmanniana illustrataet aucta, page 306:
Usage notes
- In Classical Latin, this is only found with certainty as a past participle clīnātus.
- Some older editions of classical texts seem to attest various inflected forms of this verb (clīnāre (Lucretius), clīnāvit (Petronius), ... ) which seem to have been corrected to different forms (prefixed, or to different words altogether) in modern editions.
- In New Latin, the word is very rarely found, possibly as a back-formation from the prefixed forms.
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References
- “clino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- clino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 121