A.anything swollen (as if pregnant): hence,
I. wave, billow, of rivers as well as the sea, in sg. and pl.; “κ. θαλάσσης” Il.2.209, al.; “κ. ῥόοιο” 21.263; κ. διϊπετέος ποταμοῖο ib.268,326; “κύματ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἠϊόνος κλύζεσκον” 23.61; “κύματ᾽ εὐρέϊ πόντῳ βάντ᾽ ἐπιόντα τε” S.Tr.114 (lyr.): less freq. in Prose, “κύματος ἐπαναχώρησις” Th.3.89: collectively, ὡς τὸ κ. ἔστρωτο when the swell abated, Hdt.7.193, cf. Arist.Mete.344b35, al.
b. of the waves of adversity, etc., κ. ἄτης, κακῶν, Id.Pr.886 (anap.), Th.758 (lyr.), E.Ion 927; “συμφορᾶς” Id.Hipp.824; κελαινοῦ κ. μένος, of passion, A.Eu. 832; “κ. κατακλυσμὸν φέρον νόσων” Pl.Lg.740e.
c. phrases: “μάτην με κῦμ᾽ ὅπως παρηγορῶν” A.Pr.1001; “πρὸς κῦμα λακτίζειν” E.IT1396; “ἐκ κυμάτων . . γαλήν᾽ ὁρῶ” Id.Or.279; “ἐπ᾽ ῃόνι κύματα μετρεῖν” Theoc. 16.60; “ἀριθμεῖν τὰ κύματα” Luc.Herm.84.
II. from κύω (as κύημα from κυέω), foetus, embryo, “νεόσπορον” Id.Eu.659; “γέμουσαν κύματος θεοσπόρου” E.Fr.106; of the earth, “κ. λαμβάνειν” A.Ch.128; “δισσὸν κῦμ᾽ ἐλόχευσε τέκνων” AP6.200 (Leon.).
2. young sprout of plants, Thphr.HP1.6.9; esp. of a cabbage, Gal.6.642.