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 (klusmós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.klyz.mós/ → /ka.ta.klyzˈmos/ → /ka.ta.klizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.klyz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.klyzˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.klyzˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.klyzˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.ta.klizˈmos/

Noun

κᾰτᾰκλῠσμός • (kataklusmós) m (genitive κᾰτᾰκλῠσμοῦ); second declension

1. flood, inundation
2. (figurative) deluge (e.g. a political deluge)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κατακλυσμός; τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ (Attic)

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 tôi kataklusmôi	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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Armenian: կատակլիզմ (kataklizm)
• → Belarusian: катаклі́зм (kataklízm)
• Greek: κατακλυσμός (kataklysmós)
• → Catalan: cataclisme
• → Czech: kataklyzma
• → Dutch: cataclysme
• → English: cataclysm
• → Esperanto: kataklismo
• → Finnish: kataklysmi
• → French: cataclysme
• → Galician: cataclismo
• → German: Kataklysmus
• → Italian: cataclismo
• → 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.