κλάδος

klados

branch, shoot

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 3
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Chapter 3 468b16–469a26

468b25
468b26
468b27
Rhetoric 2
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Book III 2
Chapter 3 1405b35–1406b19

1406a27
1406a28
Generation of Animals 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 2 752a9–754a20

752a20
On Length and Shortness of Life 1
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Chapter 6 467a6–467b9

467a15

Dictionary (LSJ)

κλάδος [ᾰ], ου, ὁ, A. branch, shoot of a tree, Arist. Juv. 468b25, GA 752a20; twig, opp. ἀκρεμών, Thphr. HP 1.1.9, 1.10.7: generally, branch, τῆς ἐλαίης τοὺς κλάδους Hdt. 7.19: presented by suppliants, ἐλαίας θʼ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον A. Eu. 43, cf. Supp. 22 (anap.), S. OT 3, 143; also of laurel branches used in temples, E. Ion 80. 2. plank, POxy. 1738.4, al. (iii A.D.). 3. branch of a blood-vessel, Gal. 15.141. 4. metaph., ἀπὸ νώτοιο δύο κλάδοι ἀΐσσονται two arms, Emp. 29.1. 5. κ. ἐλέας, of a young girl, Epigr.Gr. 368.7:—metapl. forms, dat. κλαδί Scol. 9, prob. in SIG 1025.33 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.); τῇ κ. Ael. NA 4.38 codd. (cf. Eust. 58.37); τῷ κ. Choerob. in Theod. 1.138; acc. κλάδα Lyr.Adesp. 122; cf. κλάδα[ν]· κλάδον, Hsch.; gen. pl. κλαδέων prob. in Philox. 1.3; dat. pl. κλάδεσι Ar. Av. 239 (lyr.), Ep. κλαδέεσσι Nic. Fr. 74.19; acc. κλάδας ib.53.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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