Talk:κυκλῶν

RFV discussion
This is given as an Ancient Greek noun, but isn't mentioned in the Perseus version of Liddell & Scott's Greek Lexicon. It appears, instead, to be a participle of the verb. The definition given is "cyclone", but from other sources that term was coined by Henry Piddington (probably in 1844), and the concept of a circular storm system seems to precede it by a few decades, at most. The references I can find that refer to the Greek term Piddington got it from tend to just give the definition "coiling of a snake", which Liddell & Scott gives as a definition for. For the couple of examples that specify an Ancient Greek term, this isn't it.

I would like to see citations for usage in Ancient Greek a) as a noun and b) as a word for cyclone. Lacking that, it should be either deleted, or converted to a participle form-of entry. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:08, 28 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Failed. POS changed to participle and definition changed to . — Ungoliant (Falai) 21:46, 19 September 2013 (UTC)