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

(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

flood, inundation
(metaphoric) 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)