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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

  • καὶ λήψεσθε τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ πρώτῃ καρπὸν ξύλου ὡραῖον καὶ κάλλυνθρα φοινίκων, καὶ κλάδουσ ξύλου δασεῖσ καὶ ἰτέασ καὶ ἄγνου κλάδουσ ἐκ χειμάρρου, εὐφρανθῆναι ἔναντι Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑμῶν ἑπτὰ ἡμέρασ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 23:40)
  • διὸ θύρσουσ καὶ κλάδουσ ὡραίουσ, ἔτι δὲ φοίνικασ ἔχοντεσ ὕμνουσ ἀνέφερον τῷ εὐοδώσαντι καθαρισθῆναι τὸν ἑαυτοῦ τόπον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 10:7)
  • μιᾷ γὰρ ἁλύσει σκότουσ πάντεσ ἐδέθησαν. εἴτε πνεῦμα συρίζον ἢ περὶ ἀμφιλαφεῖσ κλάδουσ ὀρνέων ἦχοσ εὐμελὴσ ἢ ρυθμὸσ ὕδατοσ πορευομένου βίᾳ ἢ κτύποσ ἀπηνὴσ καταρριπτομένων πετρῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 17:18)
  • θήσει τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ σκέπῃ αὐτῆσ καὶ ὑπὸ τοὺσ κλάδουσ αὐτῆσ αὐλισθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 14:26)

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