καταστροφή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καταστρέφω (katastréphō) +‎ -η (-ē).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tas.tro.pʰɛ̌ː/ → /ka.tas.troˈɸi/ → /ka.tas.troˈfi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.tro.pʰɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.troˈpʰe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.troˈɸi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.troˈfi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ka.tas.troˈfi/

Noun

κᾰτᾰστροφή • (katastrophḗ) f (genitive κᾰτᾰστροφῆς); first declension

1. overturning
2. subjugation, reduction
3. return of vibrating string to axial position
4. end, close, conclusion
5. ruin, undoing, disaster, catastrophe

Declension

First declension of ἡ κᾰτᾰστροφή; τῆς κᾰτᾰστροφῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰτᾰστροφή hē katastrophḗ	τὼ κᾰτᾰστροφᾱ́ tṑ katastrophā́	αἱ κᾰτᾰστροφαί hai katastrophaí
Genitive	τῆς κᾰτᾰστροφῆς tês katastrophês	τοῖν κᾰτᾰστροφαῖν toîn katastrophaîn	τῶν κᾰτᾰστροφῶν tôn katastrophôn
Dative	τῇ κᾰτᾰστροφῇ têi katastrophêi	τοῖν κᾰτᾰστροφαῖν toîn katastrophaîn	ταῖς κᾰτᾰστροφαῖς taîs katastrophaîs
Accusative	τὴν κᾰτᾰστροφήν tḕn katastrophḗn	τὼ κᾰτᾰστροφᾱ́ tṑ katastrophā́	τᾱ̀ς κᾰτᾰστροφᾱ́ς tā̀s katastrophā́s
Vocative	κᾰτᾰστροφή katastrophḗ	κᾰτᾰστροφᾱ́ katastrophā́	κᾰτᾰστροφαί katastrophaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καταστροφικός (katastrophikós)
• καταστροφικῶς (katastrophikôs)

Descendants

• → Catalan: catàstrofe
• → Czech: katastrofa
• → Danish: katastrofe
• → Esperanto: katastrofo
• → Finnish: katastrofi
• → French: catastrophe
• → Georgian: კატასტროფა (ḳaṭasṭropa)
• → German: Katastrophe
• Greek: καταστροφή (katastrofí)
• → Haitian Creole: katastwòf
• → Hungarian: katasztrófa
• → Ido: katastrofo
• → Irish: catastróf
• → Italian: catastrofe
• → Norwegian Bokmål: katastrofe
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: katastrofe
• → Portuguese: catástrofe
• → Romanian: catastrofă
• → Russian: катастро́фа (katastrófa)
• → Spanish: catástrofe
• → Swedish: katastrof
• → Volapük: katastrof

Further reading

• “καταστροφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καταστροφή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• καταστροφή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2692 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • annexation idem, page 30.
  • close idem, page 138.
  • conclusion idem, page 156.
  • culmination idem, page 188.
  • end idem, page 272.
  • enslavement idem, page 276.
  • finish idem, page 321.
  • pacification idem, page 588.
  • reduction idem, page 684.
  • repression idem, page 698.
  • settlement idem, page 758.
  • subjection idem, page 831.
  • subjugation idem, page 831.
  • suppression idem, page 842.

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Greek

Etymology

Inherited from Ancient Greek καταστροφή (katastrophḗ).

Noun

καταστροφή • (katastrofí) f (plural καταστροφές)

1. disaster, catastrophe
2. destruction

Declension

Declension of καταστροφή

	singular	plural
nominative	καταστροφή •	καταστροφές •
genitive	καταστροφής •	καταστροφών •
accusative	καταστροφή •	καταστροφές •
vocative	καταστροφή •	καταστροφές •

Further reading

• καταστροφή, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language