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κλῆσις , εως, ἡ, (καλέω)
A.calling, call, Pl.Smp.172a, X.Cyr.3.2.14, etc.
2. calling into court, summons, prosecution, Ar.Nu.875, 1189, etc.; “τὰς κλήσεις καλεῖσθαι ὅσας ἔδει” Antipho 6.38; “ἀφιέναι τὰς κ.” X.HG1.7.13.
3. invitation to a feast, Id.Smp.1.7; “εἰς τὸ πρυτανεῖον” D.19.32; “κλήσεις δείπνων” Plu.Per.7, cf. Parmenisc. ap. Ath. 4.156d.
4. invocation, θεῶν Men.Rh.p.333 S.
5. calling to aid, Plb.2.50.7.
6. calling in a religious sense, 1 Ep.Cor.7.20.
II. name, appellation, Pl.Plt.262d, 287e, Dsc.1.42; “τοὺς θεοὺς εἶναι κ. ἱεράς” Cleanth.Stoic.1.123; “Φιλησίη τὴν κ.” by name, IG14.2067; reputation, Phld.Rh.2.46 S.
III. Gramm., αἱ κ. τῶν ὀνομάτων the nominatives, opp. αἱ πτώσεις (the oblique cases), Arist.APr.48b41; ἔχειν θηλείας ἢ ἄρρενος κλῆσιν the nominative form of . . , Id.SE173b40, cf. 182a18.
IV. = Lat. classis, D.H.4.18.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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