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κατακλυσμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατακλυσμός κατακλυσμοῦ

Structure: κατακλυσμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων κατὰ τὴν Πελοπόννησον ἐγένοντο σεισμοὶ μεγάλοι καὶ κατακλυσμοὶ χώρασ καὶ πόλεων ἄπιστοι· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 47 13:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ κατακλυσμοὶ καὶ σεισμοὶ καὶ ἀναφυσήματα καὶ ἀνοιδήσεισ τῆσ ὑφάλου γῆσ μετεωρίζουσι καὶ τὴν θάλατταν, αἱ δὲ συνιζήσεισ ταπεινοῦσιν αὐτήν· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 20:3)

Synonyms

  1. flood

  2. deluge

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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