cliens

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly an alteration of cluēns, present active participle of clueō (“I am called, named, esteemed”), or more likely from clīnō (“to lean”). Ultimately from the root *ḱel- (“to incline”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cliēns m or f (genitive clientis); third declension

  1. customer
  2. client, retainer, follower
  3. companion, favorite
  4. (of a nation) ally, vassal
  5. one under the protection of a particular deity
    cliēns Bacchī — "client of Bacchus"

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cliēns clientēs
Genitive clientis clientium
Dative clientī clientibus
Accusative clientem clientīs
clientēs
Ablative cliente clientibus
Vocative cliēns clientēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • “cliens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cliens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cliens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cliens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cliens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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