clan
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editclan (plural clans)
- (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
- Hyponym: descent group
- Coordinate term: lineage
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
- Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
- 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
- (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
- A badger colony.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Catalan: clan
- → Danish: klan
- → Dutch: clan
- → French: clan
- → Turkish: klan
- → Galician: clan
- → German: Clan
- → Italian: clan
- → Norwegian Bokmål: klan
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: klan
- → Polish: klan
- → Russian: клан (klan)
- → Portuguese: clan, clã
- → Spanish: clan
- → Swedish: klan
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editAnagrams
editCatalan
editNoun
editclan m (plural clans)
Dutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /klɛn/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: clan
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun
editclan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)
- clan, kin group, esp. in relation to the Scottish Highlands or Scotland in general
- (gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan
Descendants
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”), and therefore a doublet of plante.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editclan m (plural clans)
Descendants
edit- → Turkish: klan
Further reading
edit- “clan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
editEtymology
editfrom Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of planta.
Noun
editclan m (plural clans)
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English clan. Ultimately a doublet of pianta.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editclan m (invariable)
References
edit- ^ clan in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese
editNoun
editclan m (plural clans)
- Alternative spelling of clã
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editclan n (plural clanuri)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | clan | clanul | clanuri | clanurile | |
genitive-dative | clan | clanului | clanuri | clanurilor | |
vocative | clanule | clanurilor |
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editclan m (plural clanes)
Further reading
edit- “clan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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