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κλεινός
κλεινός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κλεεννός (kleennós) Aeolic
Noun
κλεινός • (kleinós) m (feminine κλεινή, neuter κλεινόν); first/second declension
- famous, renowned, well-known
- often with πᾶσι (pâsi): well-known to all
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 8
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ὁ πᾶσι κλεινὸς Οἰδίπους καλούμενος.
- ... called the all-renowned Oedipus.
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ὁ πᾶσι κλεινὸς Οἰδίπους καλούμενος.
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- often with πᾶσι (pâsi): well-known to all
Inflection
Declension of κλεινός; κλεινή; κλεινόν
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | κλεινός | κλεινή | κλεινόν | κλεινώ | κλεινᾱ́ | κλεινώ | κλεινοί | κλειναί | κλεινᾰ́ | ||||
| Genitive | κλεινοῦ | κλεινῆς | κλεινοῦ | κλεινοῖν | κλειναῖν | κλεινοῖν | κλεινῶν | κλεινῶν | κλεινῶν | ||||
| Dative | κλεινῷ | κλεινῇ | κλεινῷ | κλεινοῖν | κλειναῖν | κλεινοῖν | κλεινοῖς | κλειναῖς | κλεινοῖς | ||||
| Accusative | κλεινόν | κλεινήν | κλεινόν | κλεινώ | κλεινᾱ́ | κλεινώ | κλεινούς | κλεινᾱ́ς | κλεινᾰ́ | ||||
| Vocative | κλεινέ | κλεινή | κλεινόν | κλεινώ | κλεινᾱ́ | κλεινώ | κλεινοί | κλειναί | κλεινᾰ́ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| κλεινῶς | κλεινότερος | κλεινότᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
References
- κλεινός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κλεινός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- celebrated idem, page 120.
- distinguished idem, page 241.
- eminent idem, page 268.
- famous idem, page 305.
- glorious idem, page 363.
- great idem, page 372.
- illustrious idem, page 416.
- noted idem, page 561.
- renowned idem, page 695.