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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

  • "παλιούρου κλάδῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 627)
  • "ἐάν τισ κλάδον τοῦ φυτοῦ τούτου καθῇ εἰσ τὴν θάλασσαν καθ’ ἥν εἰσι πουλύποδεσ καὶ μικρὸν ἐπίσχῃ, ἀπονητὶ ἀνέλκει τῷ κλάδῳ περιπλεκομένουσ ὅσουσ ἐθέλει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 103 1:3)
  • τὸν δὲ Ἡρακλέα παίζοντα ‐ εἶναι γὰρ δὴ αὐτὸν πρεσβύτατον ἡλικίᾳ ‐ συμβαλεῖν τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ ἐσ ἅμιλλαν δρόμου καὶ τὸν νικήσαντα ἐξ αὐτῶν κλάδῳ στεφανῶσαι κοτίνου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 11:1)

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