clock

Εννοια (English)

1. A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
2. A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
3. The odometer of a motor vehicle.
4. An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
5. The seed head of a dandelion.
6. A time clock.
7. (informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
8. A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.

watch

⌚

o’clock

time-piece

time piece

dor beetle

horologium

measure time

clock oscillator

timing clock

common dor beetle

dumble dor

lousy watchman

time-of-day

Συχνότητα

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/klɒk/

Inherited from Μέσα Αγγλικά

Cognate with Ουαλικά

Cognate with Παλαιά Ιρλανδικά

Cognate with Παλαιά Αγγλικά

Cognate with Ολλανδικά

Cognate with Saterfriesisch

Cognate with Κάτω Γερμανικά

Cognate with Γερμανικά

Cognate with Σουηδικά

Inherited from Μέσα Αγγλικά

Inherited from Παλαιά Αγγλικά

Cognate with Ολλανδικά

Cognate with Αγγλικά

In summary

c. 1350–1400, Middle English clokke, clok, cloke, from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Related to Old English clucge, Dutch klok, Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell; clock”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka. Doublet of cloak and cloche.

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