κλόνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Usually derived from κέλομαι (kélomai, “to urge, exhort”). Beekes instead thinks it’s a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kló.nos/ → /ˈklo.nos/ → /ˈklo.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kló.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈklo.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈklo.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈklo.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈklo.nos/

Noun

κλόνος • (klónos) m (genitive κλόνου); second declension

1. confused motion, turmoil, battle-rout
2. trembling, confusion, agitation
3. (in physiological sense) agitation, of wind in the bowels
4. (of the body) shaking, agitation, contraction

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κλόνος; τοῦ κλόνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κλόνος ho klónos	τὼ κλόνω tṑ klónō	οἱ κλόνοι hoi klónoi
Genitive	τοῦ κλόνου toû klónou	τοῖν κλόνοιν toîn klónoin	τῶν κλόνων tôn klónōn
Dative	τῷ κλόνῳ tôi klónōi	τοῖν κλόνοιν toîn klónoin	τοῖς κλόνοις toîs klónois
Accusative	τὸν κλόνον tòn klónon	τὼ κλόνω tṑ klónō	τοὺς κλόνους toùs klónous
Vocative	κλόνε klóne	κλόνω klónō	κλόνοι klónoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄκλονος (áklonos)
• κεραυνοκλόνος (keraunoklónos)
• κλονέω (klonéō)
• κλόνησις (klónēsis)
• κλονόεις (klonóeis)
• κλονοκάρδιος (klonokárdios)
• κλονώδης (klonṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → English: clonus

Further reading

• “κλόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κλόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κλόνος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κλόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κλόνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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