clepen
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English cleopian, clipian, from Proto-West Germanic *klipōn, fromProto-Germanic *klipōną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklɛːpən/, /ˈklæːpən/
- (dialectal) IPA(key): /ˈkleːpən/, /ˈklɛpən/, /ˈklipən/
Verb
clepen (third-person singular simple present clepeth, present participle clepende, first-/third-person singular past indicative clepte, past participle yclept)
- to call out, cry (about something)
- to call out, appeal (to someone or something)
- c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio ccvi, verso, column 1:
- For that that ſome men blamen euer yet / Lo, other maner folke comenden it / And as for me, for al ſuche variaunce / Felicite clepe I my ſuffyſaunce
- For that that some blame, yet / other kinds of people commend it. / But as for me, with all that variance / I call on felicity for my competence
- to say or respond to (someone)
- to say; to tell; to discuss (something)
- to name, call, designate
- to call to; to summon
- to convoke; to cause to assemble
Conjugation
Conjugation of clepen (weak in -te/-ed)
| infinitive | (to) clepen, clepe | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | clepe | clepte, cleped | |
| 2nd-person singular | clepest | cleptest, clepedest | |
| 3rd-person singular | clepeth | clepte, cleped | |
| subjunctive singular | clepe | ||
| imperative singular | — | ||
| plural1 | clepen, clepe | clepten, clepte, clepeden, clepede | |
| imperative plural | clepeth, clepe | — | |
| participles | clepynge, clepende | clept, cleped, yclept, ycleped | |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
References
- “clēpen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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