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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καταβαίνω (katabaínō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.tá.ba.sis/ → /kaˈta.βa.sis/ → /kaˈta.va.sis/
Noun
κᾰτᾰ́βᾰσῐς • (katábasis) f (genitive κᾰτᾰβᾰ́σεως); third declension
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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.