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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *klūd-. Cognates include Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍂𐍃 (hlūtrs), Welsh clir, and Latin cluō, clovāca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klý.dɔːn/ → /ˈkly.ðon/ → /ˈkli.ðon/
Noun
κλῠ́δων • (klúdōn) m (genitive κλῠ́δωνος); third declension
- wave, billow, and collectively, surf, rough water
497 BCE – 405 BCE,
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 194–196:
- εἴτ’ ἐς μέγαν θάλαμον Ἀμφιτρίτας / εἴτ’ ἐς τὸν ἀπόξενον ὅρμων / Θρῄκιον κλύδωνα
- eít’ es mégan thálamon Amphitrítas / eít’ es tòn apóxenon hórmōn / Thrḗikion klúdōna
- splashing
- flood
Inflection
References
- “κλύδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κλύδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κλύδων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κλύδων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κλύδων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2830 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλύδων (klúdōn).
Noun
κλύδων • (klýdon) m (plural κύδωνες)
- (nautical) rough sea, swell, storm
- Synonyms: θαλασσοταραχή (thalassotarachí), σάλος (sálos), φουρτούνα (fourtoúna)
- (by extension) unrest on the political or social level
Declension
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