κατάβασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καταβαίνω (katabaínō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ka.tá.ba.sis/ → /kaˈta.βa.sis/ → /kaˈta.va.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ka.tá.ba.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kaˈta.ba.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kaˈta.βa.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kaˈta.va.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kaˈta.va.sis/

Noun

κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐς • (katábasis) f (genitive κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. 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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • descent idem, page 214.