Alternative forms

• cluēns

Etymology

• Possibly an alteration of cluēns, present active participle of clueō (“to be called, named, esteemed”).

Compare typologically Czech zákazník, Russian зака́зчик (zakázčik) (akin to Russian сказа́ть (skazátʹ) < Proto-Slavic *kazati); Ukrainian замо́вник (zamóvnyk) (< мо́вити (móvyty) < Proto-Slavic *mъlviti).

• Alternatively from clīnō (“to lean”). In this case ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to incline”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkli.ẽːs]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#CLIENSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CLIENS
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkliː.ens]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#CLIENSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CLIENS

Noun

cliēns m or f (genitive clientis)Category:Latin lemmas#CLIENSCategory:Latin nouns#CLIENSCategory:Latin third declension nouns#CLIENSCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the third declension#CLIENSCategory:Latin feminine nouns in the third declension#CLIENSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CLIENSCategory:Latin masculine nouns#CLIENSCategory:Latin feminine nouns#CLIENSCategory:Latin nouns with multiple genders#CLIENSCategory:Pages with entries#CLIENSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CLIENS; third declension

1. customer
2. client, retainer, follower
3. companion, favorite
4. (of a nation) ally, vassal
5. one under the protection of a particular deity

   cliēns Bacchī — "client of Bacchus"

References

• “cliens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cliens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cliens", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cliens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cliens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin