κατακλυσμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κατακλύζω (kataklúzō, “I wash off, wash away, deluge, inundate”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH- (“clean”)) + -μός (-mós), equivalent to κατα- (kata-) + κλῠσμός (klŭsmós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.ta.klyz.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ka.ta.klyzˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ka.ta.klyzˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ka.ta.klyzˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ka.ta.klizˈmos/
Noun
κᾰτᾰκλῠσμός • (kătăklŭsmós) m (genitive κᾰτᾰκλῠσμοῦ); second declension
- flood, inundation
- (figurative) deluge (e.g. a political deluge)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κατακλυσμός ho kataklusmós |
τὼ κατακλυσμώ tṑ kataklusmṓ |
οἱ κατακλυσμοί hoi kataklusmoí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ toû kataklusmoû |
τοῖν κατακλυσμοῖν toîn kataklusmoîn |
τῶν κατακλυσμῶν tôn kataklusmôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κατακλυσμῷ tōî kataklusmōî |
τοῖν κατακλυσμοῖν toîn kataklusmoîn |
τοῖς κατακλυσμοῖς toîs kataklusmoîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κατακλυσμόν tòn kataklusmón |
τὼ κατακλυσμώ tṑ kataklusmṓ |
τοὺς κατακλυσμούς toùs kataklusmoús | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κατακλυσμέ kataklusmé |
κατακλυσμώ kataklusmṓ |
κατακλυσμοί kataklusmoí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: κατακλυσμός (kataklysmós)
- → Armenian: կատակլիզմ (kataklizm)
- → Belarusian: катаклі́зм (kataklízm)
- → Catalan: cataclisme
- → Czech: kataklyzma
- → Dutch: cataclysme
- → English: cataclysm
- → Esperanto: kataklismo
- → Finnish: kataklysmi
- → French: cataclysme
- → Galician: cataclismo
- → German: Kataklysmus
- → Italian: cataclisma
- → Latin: cataclysmus
- → Polish: kataklizm
- → Portuguese: cataclismo/cataclisma
- → Romanian: cataclism
- → Russian: катакли́зм (kataklízm)
- → Serbo-Croatian: катаклизма/kataklizma
- → Spanish: cataclismo
- → Swedish: kataklysm
- → Ukrainian: катаклі́зм (kataklízm)
Further reading
- “κατακλυσμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κατακλυσμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κατακλυσμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2627 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- deluge idem, page 209.
- flood idem, page 329.
- influx idem, page 439.
- inundation idem, page 456.
- irruption idem, page 460.
- overflow idem, page 585.
- submersion idem, page 831.