cló

See also: clo, CLO, Clo, clò, and cło

Irish

Alternative forms

• clódh (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish cló (“metal spike, nail; imprint, impression; form, shape, appearance; print of a book”), from Proto-Celtic *klāwos (compare Breton klao, Welsh clo), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, crook, peg”) (compare Latin clāvis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠoː/, /klˠoː/

Noun

cló m (genitive singular cló, nominative plural clónna)

1. font, script

   Synonym: clófhoireann

2. print, impression

   Synonym: prionta

3. form

   Synonym: riocht

4. (literary) nail, spike
5. (medicine) tent (for a wound)

   Synonym: cló gona

Declension

Declension of cló

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cló clónna Vocative a chló a chlónna Genitive cló clónna Dative cló clónna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cló na clónna Genitive an chló na gclónna Dative leis an gcló don chló leis na clónna

Derived terms

• claonchló m (“negative”)
• cló-eagar m (“composition”)
• cló-eagraigh (“compose”, verb)
• cló-eagraí m (“compositor”)
• cló-inneall m (“printing-machine”)
• clóbhuail, clóigh (“print”, verb)
• clóchuir (“typeset”, verb)
• clóchur m (“typesetting”)
• clódóir m (“printer; dyer”)
• clóghrafach (“typographical”, adjective)
• clóghrafaíocht f (“typography”)
• clóghrafóir m (“typographer”)
• clólann f (“printing works, print room”)
• clólíne f (“line of type”)
• clómhiotal m (“type metal”)
• clópháipéar m (“printing paper”)
• clóphreas m (“printing press”)
• clóscríbhinn f (“typescript”)
• clóscríbhneoireacht f (“typewriting, typing”)
• clóscríobh (“type, typewrite”, verb)
• clóscríobhaí m (“typist”)
• clóscríobhán m (“typewriter”)
• clóscríobh m (“typing, typewriting”)
• fótachló m (“phototype”)
• iarnchló m (“ferrotype”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cló	chló	gcló
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cló”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cló”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “clóḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 150
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cló”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cló”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 20