κατάβασις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καταβαίνω (katabaínō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.tá.ba.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈta.ba.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈta.βa.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈta.va.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈta.va.sis/
Noun
κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐς • (katábasis) f (genitive κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως); third declension
- descent
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐς; τῆς κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐς hē katábasis | τὼ κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σει tṑ katabásei | αἱ κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεις hai katabáseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως tês katabáseōs | τοῖν κᾰτᾰβᾰσέοιν toîn katabaséoin | τῶν κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεων tôn katabáseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σει têi katabásei | τοῖν κᾰτᾰβᾰσέοιν toîn katabaséoin | ταῖς κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεσῐ / κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεσῐν taîs katabásesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐν tḕn katábasin | τὼ κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σει tṑ katabásei | τᾱ̀ς κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεις tā̀s katabáseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐ katábasi | κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σει katabásei | κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεις katabáseis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- ἀνάβασις (anábasis)
Descendants
- → English: katabasis
- → French: catabase
- Greek: κατάβαση (katávasi)
- → Polish: katabasis, katabaza
Further reading
- “κατάβασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κατάβασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κατάβασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2600 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κατάβασις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- descent idem, page 214.