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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ná.ba.sis/ → /aˈna.βa.sis/ → /aˈna.va.sis/
Noun
ᾰ̓νᾰ́βᾰσῐς • (anábasis) f (genitive ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰ́σεως); third declension
- ascent
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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 (2006–2024)
- 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.