clino

clino m (plural clini)

1. (especially in combination) cline

• cloni

From Proto-Italic *kleināō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-, from *ḱel- (“to incline”) +‎ *-éyti (*éy-present suffix). Although clearly a nasal present, a nasal present of Proto-Indo-European date would be *ḱl̥-n-i-, which would not give the attested Latin form. According to De Vaan,^[1] the nasal present was re-formed as *ḱli-n- in pre-Italic, a change shared also by other Indo-European languages. The long vowel could be by analogy with the perfect, and may be of Italic date.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkliː.noː/, [ˈklʲiːnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.no/, [ˈkliːno]

clīnō (present infinitive clīnāre, perfect active clīnāvī, supine clīnātum); first conjugation

1. (rare, nonstandard except as past participle) to bend, incline
   • 1st century BC, Titus Lucretius Carus; in: De rerum natura libri sex: quibus interpretationem et notas addidit Thomas Creech, collegii omnium animarum olim socius. Accedunt variae lectiones IV. edd. antiquissimarum necnon annotationes R. Bentleii, Oxonii, e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1818, page 85f.:

     Quare etiam atque etiam paullum clinare necesse 'st
     Corpora, nec plus quam minimum, ne fingere motus
     Obliquos videamur, et id res vera refutet.
     (In note 243 to this quote the editor clarifies: “Alii, inclinare; sed quis clinare rejiceret, qui clinamen, v. 292. admittit?”)

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   • 1687, Jean-Jacques Magnet, Pharmacopoea Schroedero-Hoffmanniana illustrataet aucta, page 306:

     Optime est Botritis, densa, modice grauis, & in laevitatem magis clinans […]

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• In Classical Latin, this is only found with certainty as a past participle clīnātus.
• Some older editions of classical texts seem to attest various inflected forms of this verb (clīnāre (Lucretius), clīnāvit (Petronius), ... ) which seem to have been corrected to different forms (prefixed, or to different words altogether) in modern editions.
• In New Latin, the word is very rarely found, possibly as a back-formation from the prefixed forms.

• acclīnō / adclīnō
• clīnāmen
• clīnātus
• dēclīnō
• inclīnō
• prōclīnō
• reclīnō

• clīvus

• → Esperanto: klini
• Italian: chinare
• Old French: cliner
• Piedmontese: chiné
• Sicilian: chinari

• “clino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “clino”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.