cataclismo
Italian
Adjective
cataclismo (feminine cataclisma, masculine plural cataclismi, feminine plural cataclisme)
- cataclysmic
Related terms
- cataclisma
Further reading
- cataclismo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Noun
cataclismo m (plural cataclismos)
- Alternative form of cataclisma
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin cataclysmus, from Ancient Greek κατακλυσμός (kataklusmós, “deluge, flood, inundation”), from κατά (katá, “down”) + κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash off, to wash away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“clean”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kataˈklismo/ [ka.t̪aˈkliz.mo]
- Rhymes: -ismo
- Syllabification: ca‧ta‧clis‧mo
Noun
cataclismo m (plural cataclismos)
- cataclysm
Further reading
- “cataclismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014