Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /klýðon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /klýðon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /klíðon/

Noun

κλύδων • ‎(klúdōn) m ‎(genitive κλύδωνος); third declension

1. wave, billow, and collectively, surf, rough water
   • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 194–196

     εἴτ᾽ ἐς μέγαν θάλαμον Ἀμφιτρίτας / εἴτ᾽ ἐς τὸν ἀπόξενον ὅρμων / Θρῄκιον κλύδωνα

2. splashing
3. 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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