Question:
How do you say thunder and lightning in greek?
anonymous
2008-09-22 15:53:54 UTC
I need to know how to say thunder and lightning in greek, so that I can create a myth for school
Five answers:
anonymous
2008-09-25 04:11:36 UTC
Lightning is actually αστραπή (astrapi), also κεραυνός (keravnos).



Thunder is βροντή (vrondi). Thunderstorm is καταιγίδα (kategida)
anonymous
2016-10-07 12:59:28 UTC
Greek Word For Lightning
anonymous
2015-08-13 04:23:29 UTC
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RE:

How do you say thunder and lightning in greek?

I need to know how to say thunder and lightning in greek, so that I can create a myth for school
M K
2008-09-25 13:59:01 UTC
Thunder is translated as βροντή (vronti or vrodi) in greek.

Lightning is translated as αστραπή (astrapi) in greek.

"Thunder and lightning" is translated as αστραπόβροντο or better in plural αστραπόβροντα (astrapovroda). We use it in the following phrase: Άρχισαν τα αστραπόβροντα (the thunders and lighnings started) meaning that "the storm is coming".



Keravnos (κεραυνός) is the whole phenomenon and was in greek mythology Zeus' armor, manufactured by the Cyclops.
anonymous
2008-09-22 16:09:02 UTC
Is this what you wanted?





kerauno

(Greek: thunderbolt, thunder, lightning [literally, "smasher, crusher"])



and some fun words derivitive of this:



ceraunia

In folklore, stones, arrowheads, stone axes, and similar artifacts, believed to have fallen from the sky.

ceraunics

That branch of physics that considers the phenomena of heat and electricity.

ceraunogram, keraunogram

The written record that results from a ceraunograph (a radio direction-finder for recording sferics or the study of atmospherics, especially from a meteorological point of view).

ceraunograph, ceraunography, keraunograph, keraunography

1. An instrument for chronologically recording occurrences of thunder (thunderstorms) and lightning (lightnings or thunderbolts).

2. A figure impressed by lightning upon a body or material.

3. In meteorology, an apparatus, consisting essentially of an antenna connected to a galvanometer or electroscope, for recording the occurrence of a distant thunderstorm.

ceraunomancy, keraunomancy

1. Divination from activities in the air (rain, thunder, lightning, etc.).

2. A form of divination involving the interpretation of an omen communicated by thunder.

ceraunomania, keraunomania

A abnormal desire to be around when there are thunder and lightning exhibitions put on by nature.

ceraunophilia, keraunophilia

A special fondness for thunderstorms.

ceraunophobia, keraunophobia

1. An excessive fear of lightning. In psychiatry, it is related to the fear of strong and superior forces; and as such, it appears to stem from fear of a father and/or of castration.

2. An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning which exist in storms.

ceraunophone, keraunophone, keraunophonic

1. An instrument that makes a record of occurrences of thunder through a telephone receiver.

2. In meteorology, an apparatus, essentially a radio receiver, for audibly demonstrating the occurrence of distant lightning flashes [Webster's New Unabridged International Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1952)].

ceraunoscope

An apparatus used by the ancients in their ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning [as defined by Webster's New Unabridged International Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1952) and The Oxford English Dictionary, based on an 1827 reference].

ceraunoscopia, keraunoscopia

Another form of divination involving the interpretation of thunder.

ceraunoscopy

1. Fortunetelling by observing and making interpretations of lightning.

2. Ancient system of divination practiced by examining the phenomena of lightning and thunder.

keraunion

In archaeology, any of several kinds of prehistoric artifacts, especially stone axes, believed in ancient times to have fallen as thunderbolts.

keraunoneurosis

A term for traumatic neuroses associated with electric shocks.

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astrapo, astrap

(Greek: lightning; the Greek verb strapto means "to hurl")



and fun derivitives of this:



astraphobia, astrapophobia

1. A morbid fear of lightning or of thunder and lightning.

2. An intensive fear of being struck by lightning or of thunderstorms.

astrapomancy

Divination by observing and interpreting lightning.

astrapomania

An unusual fondness for or attraction to lightning. [Such people had better hope that lightning does not have an attraction to them!]

Astrapotherium magnum (Great Lightning Beast)

An extinct South American mammal which vaguely resembled a cross between a small elephant, and a very large tapir.


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