clango

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklan.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -anɡo
  • Hyphenation: clàn‧go

Verb

clango

  1. first-person singular present indicative of clangere

Latin

Etymology

Likely related to Ancient Greek κλᾰ́ζω (klắzō, “make a sharp noise”, verb) and κλᾰγγή (klăngḗ, “shrill sound”, noun).[1] The details and further cognates are uncertain. Schrijver 1991 derives both Latin clang- and Greek κλᾰγγ- (klăng-) from Osthoff's Law shortening of earlier *klāng-, from *klh₂-n-g-, from a root *klh₂g- with a nasal infix *-n-. However, Schrijver is hesitant about reconstructing the root due to its expressive nature.[2] In contrast, Beekes 2010 rejects *klh₂g-, saying it would produce a Greek form in *κλᾱγ- (*klāg-) rather than κλᾰγ- (klăg-), and rejects *klag­- for having *a (which Beekes does not accept as a PIE phoneme). Beekes concludes that the root "must have been adopted from a non-IE language", and compares Old Norse hlakka (“to cry”) as another possible cognate, suggesting that its geminate -kk- could go back to original -*-nk-.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

clangō (present infinitive clangere, perfect active clanguī); third conjugation, no supine stem, third person-only in the passive

  1. to clang
  2. (transitive) to sound out (a signal, etc., of a trumpet)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of clangō (third conjugation, no supine stem, third person-only in the passive)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present clangō clangis clangit clangimus clangitis clangunt
imperfect clangēbam clangēbās clangēbat clangēbāmus clangēbātis clangēbant
future clangam clangēs clanget clangēmus clangētis clangent
perfect clanguī clanguistī clanguit clanguimus clanguistis clanguērunt,
clanguēre
pluperfect clangueram clanguerās clanguerat clanguerāmus clanguerātis clanguerant
future perfect clanguerō clangueris clanguerit clanguerimus clangueritis clanguerint
passive present — — clangitur — — clanguntur
imperfect — — clangēbātur — — clangēbantur
future — — clangētur — — clangentur
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present clangam clangās clangat clangāmus clangātis clangant
imperfect clangerem clangerēs clangeret clangerēmus clangerētis clangerent
perfect clanguerim clanguerīs clanguerit clanguerīmus clanguerītis clanguerint
pluperfect clanguissem clanguissēs clanguisset clanguissēmus clanguissētis clanguissent
passive present — — clangātur — — clangantur
imperfect — — clangerētur — — clangerentur
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — clange — — clangite —
future — clangitō clangitō — clangitōte clanguntō
passive future — — clangitor — — clanguntor
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present clangere clangī clangēns —
future — — — clangendum,
clangundum
perfect clanguisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
clangendī clangendō clangendum clangendō — —

Descendants

  • → Italian: clangere

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 707-708
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 223

Further reading

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