clino.
to bend, incline
Meaning & usage
to bend, incline
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti ~ *ḱl̥nyénti Proto-Italic *kl(e)inō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō ▲ Proto-Italic *klei- ~ *kli-influ. Latin clīnō From Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-, from *ḱel- (“to incline”) + *-éyti (*éy-present suffix). Although clearly a nasal present, a nasal-infixed verb of Proto-Indo-European date would be *ḱl̥-n-i-, which would not give the attested Latin form. According to De Vaan, the nasal present was re-formed as *ḱli-n- in pre-Italic, a change shared also by other Indo-European languages. The long vowel might have been introduced from the root aorist *ḱléy-t ~ *ḱli-ént, whence also cliēns. For other examples of first-conjugation verbs beside original nasal-infixes, compare spernō beside āspernor.
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