cleta

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin clēta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkleta/
  • Syllabification: cle‧ta
  • Rhymes: -eta

Noun

cleta f

  1. a type of fence

References

  • valla”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Latin

Alternative forms

  • clēda, clita, clida, cleida, cleia, clata, clada, claia, claa, cloisa, cloea

Etymology

Borrowed from the Gaulish descendant of Proto-Celtic *kleitā.

Noun

clēta f (genitive clētae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. hurdle (type of fence)
    • 7th c. AD, Lex Ripuaria 77:
      Si quis hominem... interficerit... in clita eum levare debet...
      If someone kills a man... he must raise [his body] on a hurdle...

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative clēta clētae
genitive clētae clētārum
dative clētae clētīs
accusative clētam clētās
ablative clētā clētīs
vocative clēta clētae

Descendants

  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: ceia
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cleta”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 191