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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κατά (katá, “down”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way, road”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ká.tʰo.dos/ → /ˈka.θo.ðos/ → /ˈka.θo.ðos/
Noun
κᾰ́θοδος • (káthodos) f (genitive κᾰθόδου); second declension
- way down, descent
- Synonym: κατάβασις (katábasis)
- Antonym: ἄνοδος (ánodos)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “κάθοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάθοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάθοδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κᾰ́θοδος (káthodos).
Noun
κάθοδος • (káthodos) f (plural κάθοδοι)
- (physics, chemistry, electricity) cathode
- Antonyms: άνοδος (ánodos), ιόν (ión)
- Coordinate terms: ηλεκτρόδιο (ilektródio), ιόν (ión)
- decrease
- descent, route downwards
- route southwards
- (politics) participation in an election
Declension
Further reading