clan
English
Etymology
Borrowed 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæn/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: Klan
- Rhymes: -æn
Noun
clan (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.
- Coordinate term: lineage
- Hyponym: descent group
- 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
Descendants
Translations
|
|
See also
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed 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
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /klɛn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: clan
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun
clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)
French
Etymology
Borrowed 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
- IPA(key): /klɑ̃/
Audio (file)
Descendants
- → Turkish: klan
Further reading
- “clan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology
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 planta.
Synonyms
- (clan): tribo
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English clan, 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 pianta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklan/, /ˈklɛn/[1]
- Rhymes: -an, -ɛn
- Hyphenation: clàn
References
- clan in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Romanian
Declension
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) clan | clanul | (niște) clanuri | clanurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) clan | clanului | (unor) clanuri | clanurilor |
vocative | clanule | clanurilor |
Spanish
Etymology
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 planta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklan/ [ˈklãn]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: clan
Further reading
- “clan”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014