cliens
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
- Possibly an alteration of cluēns, present active participle of clueō (“I am called, named, esteemed”).
- Compare typologically Czech zákazník, Russian зака́зчик (zakázčik) (akin to Russian сказа́ть (skazátʹ) < Proto-Slavic *kazati); Ukrainian замо́вник (zamóvnyk) (< мо́вити (móvyty) < Proto-Slavic *mъlviti).
- Alternatively from clīnō (“to lean”). In this case ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to incline”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkli.ẽːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkliː.ens]
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).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cliēns | clientēs |
| genitive | clientis | clientium |
| dative | clientī | clientibus |
| accusative | clientem | clientīs clientēs |
| ablative | cliente | clientibus |
| vocative | cliēns | clientēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- French: client, cliente
- Catalan: client
- Galician: cliente
- Italian: cliente
- Portuguese: cliente
- Romanian: client
- Spanish: cliente
- → English: client
- → German: Klient
- → Russian: клие́нт (klijént)
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