κεραυνός

Thematic transformation of an r/n stem, from a verb "to shatter" that was replaced by the related κεραΐζω (keraḯzō), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to smash, shatter”). For the formation, compare the unrelated ἐλαύνω (elaúnō, “to set in motion”).^[1]

κεραυνός • (keraunós) m (genitive κεραυνοῦ); second declension

1. thunderbolt, lightning strike

   Synonym: σκηπτός (skēptós)

• Greek: κεραυνός (keravnós)
• → English: ceraunic, cerauno-, keraunic, kerauno-

• “κεραυνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κεραυνός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κεραυνός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κεραυνός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κεραυνός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κεραυνός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bolt idem, page 88.
  • thunderbolt idem, page 873.
• κεραυνός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek κεραυνός (keraunós). For the figurative senses, semantic loan from French foudre.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ce.raˈvnos/
• Hyphenation: κε‧ραυ‧νός

κεραυνός • (keravnós) m (plural κεραυνοί)

1. thunderbolt, lightning bolt, lightning strike, lightning
2. (figuratively) sudden and unexpected event
3. (figuratively) explosive, aggressive, or forceful actions (often with dramatic or critical intent)

• αστραπή f (astrapí, “lightning”)

• βροντή f (vrontí, “thunder”)

• κεραυνός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el