κεραυνός

Thematic transformation of an r/n stem, from a verb "to shatter" that was replaced by κεραΐζω (keraḯzō), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to smash, shatter”). For the formation, compare ἐλαύνω (elaúnō).

κεραυνός • (keraunós) m (genitive κεραυνοῦ); second declension

1. thunderbolt, lightning strike

   Synonym: σκηπτός (skēptós)

• Greek: κεραυνός (keravnós)
• → English: ceraunic, cerauno-, keraunic, kerauno-

• “κεραυνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κεραυνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κεραυνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κεραυνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κεραυνός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κεραυνός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bolt idem, page 88.
  • thunderbolt idem, page 873.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek κεραυνός (keraunós). For the figurative senses, semantic loan from French foudre.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ce.raˈvnos/
• Hyphenation: κε‧ραυ‧νός

κεραυνός • (keravnós) m (plural κεραυνοί)

1. thunderbolt, lightning bolt, lightning strike, lightning
2. (figuratively) sudden and unexpected event
3. (figuratively) explosive, aggressive, or forceful actions (often with dramatic or critical intent)

• αστραπή f (astrapí, “lightning”)

• βροντή f (vrontí, “thunder”)

• κεραυνός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el