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 • (kătắbăsĭs) f (genitive κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐς hē kătắbăsĭs |
τὼ κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σει tṑ kătăbắsei |
αἱ κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεις hai kătăbắseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως tês kătăbắseōs |
τοῖν κᾰτᾰβᾰσέοιν toîn kătăbăséoin |
τῶν κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεων tôn kătăbắseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σει tēî kătăbắsei |
τοῖν κᾰτᾰβᾰσέοιν toîn kătăbăséoin |
ταῖς κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεσῐ / κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεσῐν taîs kătăbắsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐν tḕn kătắbăsĭn |
τὼ κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σει tṑ kătăbắsei |
τᾱ̀ς κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεις tā̀s kătăbắseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐ kătắbăsĭ |
κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σει kătăbắsei |
κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεις kătăbắseis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- ἀνάβασις (anábasis)
Descendants
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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- descent idem, page 214.