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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Probably related to κλάδος (kládos, “branch, twig”) and κλαστός (klastós, “broken off”), as in clastic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɔ̌ːn/ → /klon/ → /klon/
Noun
κλών • (klṓn) m (genitive κλωνός); third declension
- twig, spray, slip
Inflection
References
- “κλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κλών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN