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 • (kătắbăsĭs) f (genitive κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως); third declension

1. descent

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐς; τῆς κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως (Attic)

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
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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • descent idem, page 214.