Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kláðos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kláðos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kláðos/

Noun

κλάδος • ‎(kládos) m ‎(genitive κλάδου); second declension

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
   1. laurel branches used in temples
3. (figuratively) arm

Inflection

The second declension is much more common, but the third is seen, especially in poetic works.

Descendants

• English: clade
• French: clade
• Greek: κλάδος ‎(kládos)

References

• κλάδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κλάδος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κλάδος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2798”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «κλάδος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bough idem, page 90.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • olive idem, page 572.
  • suppliant idem, page 840.
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek κλάδος ‎(kládos).

Noun

κλάδος • ‎(kládos) m ‎(plural κλάδος)

1. (horticulture) branch, bough
2. branch of organisation
3. (biology) clade

Declension

Related terms

• see: κλαδί n ‎(kladí, “branch”)