σφοδρός

Clearly related to σφεδανός (sphedanós, “violent, vehement”).^[1] The origin of these words is uncertain but perhaps related to σφαδᾴζω (sphadāízō, “to flounce”) and σφενδόνη (sphendónē, “sling”).

σφοδρός • (sphodrós) m (feminine σφοδρᾱ́, neuter σφοδρόν); first/second declension

1. vehement, violent, excessive

   Synonyms: ἐπῐζᾰ́φελος (epĭzắphelos), σφεδᾰνός (sphedănós)

2. violent, impetuous (of men)
3. active, zealous
4. strong, robust

• → Greek: σφοδρός (sfodrós) (learned)

• “σφοδρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σφοδρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σφοδρός in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• “σφοδρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σφοδρός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σφοδρός (sphodrós).

σφοδρός • (sfodrós) m (feminine σφοδρή, neuter σφοδρό)

1. vehement
2. violent, fierce

• (violent): βίαιος (víaios)
• (vehement, violent):ορμητικός (ormitikós)
• (vehement): παράφορος (paráforos)
• (vehement): φλογερός (flogerós)

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