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κλάδος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλάδος κλάδου

Structure: κλαδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kla/w

Sense

  1. a young slip or shoot of a tree, such as is broken off for grafting
  2. an olive-branch which was wound round with wool and presented by suppliants, laurel branches used in temples

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εὐθὺ δ’ ὁ μὲν τοξεύσασ Ἰνδὸσ καταφρονήσασ προσέδραμε καὶ καταφέροντοσ αὐτοῦ πληγὴν ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ ὑπέθηκε τῇ λαγόνι τὸ ξίφοσ καὶ καιρίου γενομένου τοῦ τραύματοσ ὁ μὲν βάρβαροσ ἔπεσεν, ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺσ ἐπιλαβόμενοσ τοῦ πλησίον κλάδου καὶ διαναστὰσ προεκαλεῖτο τῶν Ἰνδῶν τοὺσ βουλομένουσ διαγωνίσασθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 99 3:3)
  • τῷ δὲ δένδρῳ τῷ ἐν Γαδείροισ καὶ τοῦτο προσιστόρηται ὅτι κλάδου μὲν ἀποκλωμένου γάλα ῥεῖ, ῥίζησ δὲ τεμνομένησ μιλτῶδεσ ὑγρὸν ἀναφέρεται. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 20:6)

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