κλήθρα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κλήθρη (klḗthrē) — Ionic
- κλῆθρον (klêthron)
Etymology
Unclear. It has been connected with Tyrolese German Lutter (“green alder”). The suffix -θρη is from the same PIE root as -τρον.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klɛ̌ː.tʰra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkle̝.tʰra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkli.θra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkli.θra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkli.θra/
Noun
κλήθρα • (klḗthra) f (genitive κλήθρᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κλήθρᾱ hē klḗthrā |
τὼ κλήθρᾱ tṑ klḗthrā |
αἱ κλῆθραι hai klêthrai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κλήθρᾱς tês klḗthrās |
τοῖν κλήθραιν toîn klḗthrain |
τῶν κληθρῶν tôn klēthrôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κλήθρᾳ tēî klḗthrāi |
τοῖν κλήθραιν toîn klḗthrain |
ταῖς κλήθραις taîs klḗthrais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κλήθρᾱν tḕn klḗthrān |
τὼ κλήθρᾱ tṑ klḗthrā |
τᾱ̀ς κλήθρᾱς tā̀s klḗthrās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κλήθρᾱ klḗthrā |
κλήθρᾱ klḗthrā |
κλῆθραι klêthrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κλήθρινος (klḗthrinos)
References
- “κλήθρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κλήθρα 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, page 714
- ^ The Proto-Indo-European Instrument Noun Suffix *-tlom and its Variants, by Birgit Anette Olsen (1988), 7.3