κλεῖθρον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κλείω (kleíō, “to close”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /klêː.tʰron/ → /ˈkli.θron/ → /ˈkli.θron/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /klêː.tʰron/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.tʰron/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.θron/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.θron/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.θron/

Noun

κλεῖθρον • (kleîthron) n (genitive κλείθρου); second declension

1. A bar for closing a door
2. The boom of an harbour
3. (anatomy) The entrance of the windpipe

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κλεῖθρον tò kleîthron	τὼ κλείθρω tṑ kleíthrō	τᾰ̀ κλεῖθρᾰ tà kleîthra
Genitive	τοῦ κλείθρου toû kleíthrou	τοῖν κλείθροιν toîn kleíthroin	τῶν κλείθρων tôn kleíthrōn
Dative	τῷ κλείθρῳ tôi kleíthrōi	τοῖν κλείθροιν toîn kleíthroin	τοῖς κλείθροις toîs kleíthrois
Accusative	τὸ κλεῖθρον tò kleîthron	τὼ κλείθρω tṑ kleíthrō	τᾰ̀ κλεῖθρᾰ tà kleîthra
Vocative	κλεῖθρον kleîthron	κλείθρω kleíthrō	κλεῖθρᾰ kleîthra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of τὸ κλεῖθρον; τοῦ κλείθρου (Attic)

Derived terms

• κλειθρία (kleithría)
• κλειθρίον (kleithríon)
• κλειθριώδης (kleithriṓdēs)
• κλειθροποιός (kleithropoiós)

Descendants

• English: cleithrum

Further reading

• “κλεῖθρον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κλεῖθρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette