cataclysm

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cataclysme, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cataclysmus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κατακλυσμός (kataklusmós, “deluge, flood”), from κατακλύζω (kataklúzō, “to dash over, flood, deluge, inundate”), from κατά (katá, “downwards, towards”) + κλύζω (klúzō, “to wash off, to wash away, to dash over”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkætəˌklɪzm̩/

Noun

cataclysm (plural cataclysms)

1. A sudden, violent event.
2. (geology) A sudden and violent change in the earth's crust.
3. A great flood.

Derived terms

• cataclysmic

Related terms

• catastrophe

Translations

sudden, violent event

• Armenian: կատակլիզմ (hy) (kataklizm)
• Belarusian: катаклі́зм m (kataklízm)
• Catalan: cataclisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 激變／激变 (zh) (jībiàn), 激变 (zh) (jībiàn)

• Czech: kataklyzma f
• Esperanto: kataklismo
• Finnish: mullistus (fi)
• French: cataclysme (fr) m
• Galician: cataclismo (gl) m
• German: Kataklysmus (de) m
• Greek: κατακλυσμός (el) m (kataklysmós)
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• Japanese: 激変 (げきへん, gekihen), shrekoning (shrekoning)
• Manx: coleaystey mooar m
• Polish: kataklizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: cataclisma m
• Romanian: cataclism (ro) n
• Russian: катакли́зм (ru) m (kataklízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: катаклизма f

  Roman: kataklizma (sh) f

• Swedish: kataklysm (sv)
• Ukrainian: катаклі́зм (uk) m (kataklízm)
• Urdu: قیامت (qayamat)

sudden and violent change in the earth's crust

• Catalan: cataclisme (ca) m
• Finnish: kataklysmi (fi), luonnonmullistus (fi)
• Galician: cataclismo (gl) m
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• Romanian: cataclism (ro) n
• Russian: катакли́зм (ru) m (kataklízm)
• Spanish: cataclismo (es) m

great flood

• Finnish: suurtulva
• Romanian: inundație (ro) f
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• Russian: пото́п (ru) m (potóp)