κλύδων

From Proto-Indo-European *klūd-. Cognates include Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍂𐍃 (hlūtrs), Welsh clir, and Latin cluō, clovāca.

κλῠ́δων • (klúdōn) m (genitive κλῠ́δωνος); third declension

1. 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

2. splashing
3. flood

• “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.
  • billow idem, page 79.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • flood idem, page 329.
  • sea idem, page 744.
  • storm idem, page 821.
  • surge idem, page 843.
  • tide idem, page 873.
  • wave idem, page 967.
• 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

From Ancient Greek κλύδων (klúdōn).

κλύδων • (klýdon) m (plural κλύδωνες)

1. (nautical) rough sea, swell, storm

   Synonyms: θαλασσοταραχή (thalassotarachí), σάλος (sálos), φουρτούνα (fourtoúna)

2. (by extension) unrest on the political or social level

• κλυδωνίζομαι (klydonízomai, “to sway back and forth”, verb)