ἀνάβασις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ná.ba.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈna.ba.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈna.βa.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈna.va.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈna.va.sis/
Noun
ᾰ̓νᾰ́βᾰσῐς • (ănắbăsĭs) f (genitive ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ᾰ̓νᾰ́βᾰσῐς hē ănắbăsĭs |
τὼ ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σει tṑ ănăbắsei |
αἱ ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεις hai ănăbắseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεως tês ănăbắseōs |
τοῖν ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰσέοιν toîn ănăbăséoin |
τῶν ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεων tôn ănăbắseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σει tēî ănăbắsei |
τοῖν ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰσέοιν toîn ănăbăséoin |
ταῖς ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεσῐ / ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεσῐν taîs ănăbắsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ᾰ̓νᾰ́βᾰσῐν tḕn ănắbăsĭn |
τὼ ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σει tṑ ănăbắsei |
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεις tā̀s ănăbắseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓νᾰ́βᾰσῐ ănắbăsĭ |
ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σει ănăbắsei |
ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεις ănăbắseis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- κατάβασις (katábasis)
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀνάβασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀνάβασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀνάβασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀνάβασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀνάβασις 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.