κλάδος [ᾰ], ου, ὁ,
branch, shoot of a tree, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Juventute” 468b25, “GA” 752a20 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; twig, opposed to ἀκρεμών, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.1.9, 1.10.7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: generally, branch, τῆς ἐλαίης τοὺς κλάδους [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: presented by suppliants, ἐλαίας θ᾽ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 43, compare “Supp.” 22 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 3, 143 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of laurel branches used in temples, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 80. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 plank, [[ POxy. 1738.4, +others (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__3 branch of a blood-vessel, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.141. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 metaphorically, ἀπὸ νώτοιο δύο κλάδοι ἀΐσσονται two arms, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 29.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 κ. ἐλέας, of a young girl, [[ “epigram Gr.” 368.7:—metapl. forms, _dative_ κλαδί “Scol.” 9, probably in “SIG” 1025.33 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τῇ κ. [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.38 codices (compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 58.37); τῷ κ. 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.138; _accusative_ κλάδα “Lyrica Adespota” 122 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; compare κλάδα[ν]· κλάδον, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; genitive plural κλαδέων probably in [[ 3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 1.3; _dative_ _plural_ κλάδεσι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 239 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect κλαδέεσσι [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.19; _accusative_ κλάδας [prev. work]53. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]