The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκατακλυσμός“deluge, flood”
- Latin · derived fromcataclysmus
- French · borrowed fromcataclysme
- English todaycataclysm
From French cataclysme, from Latin cataclysmus, from 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”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκατακλυσμός all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.