κλῆμα

See also: κλήμα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κλᾶμμα (klâmma)

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /klɛ̂ː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkle̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.ma/

Noun

κλῆμᾰ • (klêma) n (genitive κλήμᾰτος); third declension

1. twig, branch, tendril of the vine
2. (botany) sprout, shoot
3. cutting, slip
4. vine staff, cane carried by Roman centurions

Declension

Third declension of τὸ κλῆμᾰ; τοῦ κλήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κλῆμᾰ tò klêma	τὼ κλήμᾰτε tṑ klḗmate	τᾰ̀ κλήμᾰτᾰ tà klḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ κλήμᾰτος toû klḗmatos	τοῖν κλημᾰ́τοιν toîn klēmátoin	τῶν κλημᾰ́των tôn klēmátōn
Dative	τῷ κλήμᾰτῐ tôi klḗmati	τοῖν κλημᾰ́τοιν toîn klēmátoin	τοῖς κλήμᾰσῐ / κλήμᾰσῐν toîs klḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κλῆμᾰ tò klêma	τὼ κλήμᾰτε tṑ klḗmate	τᾰ̀ κλήμᾰτᾰ tà klḗmata
Vocative	κλῆμᾰ klêma	κλήμᾰτε klḗmate	κλήμᾰτᾰ klḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κληματίζω (klēmatízō)
• κληματικός (klēmatikós)
• κλημάτινος (klēmátinos)
• κληματίς (klēmatís)
• κληματῖτις (klēmatîtis)
• κληματόδεσις (klēmatódesis)
• κληματοειδής (klēmatoeidḗs)
• κληματόεις (klēmatóeis)
• κληματόομαι (klēmatóomai)
• κληματώδης (klēmatṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: κλήμα (klíma)

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