cluentus

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `wash (away), clean', pass. (intr.) `wash, surge, drench'.

Other forms: ipf. iter. κλύζεσκον (Ψ 61), aor. pass. κλυσθῆναι (Il.), fut. κλύσ(σ)ω (h. Ap. 75, Pi.), aor. act. κλύσαι (IA.), perf. κέκλυκα, κέκλυσμαι (Att.),

Compounds: often with prefix, e. g. ἐπι-, κατα-, περι-, προσ-,

Derivatives: κλύσις `washing' (Hp.), mostly of the prefixed verbs ἐπίκλυσις etc. (IA.); κλύσμα (also κατάκλυσμα a. o.) `fluidity, with which something is washed, clystier', also `surge, shore' (IA.), with κλυσμάτιον, - ματικός (Hp.); ( ἐπι-, κατα- etc.) κλυσμός `inundation etc.' (IA.); κλυστήρ, - ῆρος m. `clystier-pipe' (Hdt.) with - τήριον, - τηρίδιον. - Further σύγ-κλυ-ς, - δος `washed together, thrown-' (Th., Pl.), κλύ-δ-α acc. sg. `beating of the waves' (Nic. Al. 170; archaising innoavtion?), κλύ-δ-ων, - ωνος m. `waving, surf, turmoil' (μ 421) with κλυδώνιον (A., E.), κλυδων-ίζομαι `be thrown around by the waves' (LXX, J.) with κλυδωνισμός (Hdn.), - ισμα (Suid.). - Expressive enlargement ( ἐγ-, συγ-)κλυδάζομαι `splash etc.' (Hp.; - άττομαι D. L.) with κλυδασμός, ( ἐγ)κλύδαξις, ἐγκλυδαστικός (Hp.); details in Debrunner IF 21, 221f. - Also κλυδάω, of σταῖς, πηλός, `being (made) wet, soft, be mouldable' (Arist.), prob. after φλυδάω.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [607] *ḱlō-, ḱlū- (= *ḱluH-?) `wash, purify'

Etymology: The formation as the sound-like βλύζω, φλύζω, the present κλύζω stands close to the nominale δ-forms κλύ-δ-α, κλύ-δ-ων; from *κλυ-δ-ι̯ω or arisen as denominative yot-present (z. B. Schwyzer 715f.) or an independent enlargement in - ζω (with κλύ-δ-ων etc. as backformations), can hardly be decided. An IE. d-enlargement is present in Germanic, e. g. Goth. hlutrs, NHG lauter (IE. *ḱlū-d-ro-); without -d- Welsh clir `hell, clear, pure' (IE. *ḱlū-ro-). A dentalless primary verb seems to be OLat. cluō `purgo' (only Plin. 15, 119; cf. W.-Hofmann s. v.) and is supposed by clo(v)āca `subterranean discharge canal'; further, with diff. ablaut, Lith. šlúoju, šlúoti `weap, wipe' (IE. *ḱlō[u]-). - More forms Pok. 607, W.-Hofmann s. cluō. (On Oldeurop. river names (* Cluentus in Cluentensis vicus a. o.) Krahe Beitr. z. Namenforschung 5, 113f.)

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