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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Connected with κλάω (kláō, “to break”), but the meaning doesn't fit a sprout. Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɛ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈkli.ma/ → /ˈkli.ma/
Noun
κλῆμᾰ • (klêma) n (genitive κλήμᾰτος); third declension
- twig, branch, tendril of the vine
- (botany) sprout, shoot
- cutting, slip
- vine staff, cane carried by Roman centurions
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Further reading
- “κλῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κλῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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