Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /katastroɸí/

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

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

Noun

καταστροφή • ‎(katastrophḗ) f ‎(genitive καταστροφῆς); first declension

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

Inflection

Descendants

• Russian: катастрофа f ‎(katastrófa)

References

• 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’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.
  • 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 683.
  • repression idem, page 698.
  • settlement idem, page 758.
  • subjection idem, page 830.
  • subjugation idem, page 831.
  • suppression idem, page 842.

Greek

Noun

καταστροφή • ‎(katastrofí) f ‎(plural καταστροφές)

1. disaster, catastrophe
2. destruction

Declension