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κατάβασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάβασις καταβάσεως

Structure: καταβασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: katabai/nw

Sense

  1. descent

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ νῦν πᾶν τὸ πρὸσ ψυχὴν τοῦ βασιλέωσ εἰσ κατάβασιν καταβαινέτω πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ. κεκλείκασιν αὐτὸν εἰσ χεῖρασ τοῦ βασιλέωσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 23:19)
  • καὶ δὴ πρῶτά σοι δίειμι τὰ περὶ τῆσ γνώμησ τῆσ ἐμῆσ, ὅθεν ὡρμήθην πρὸσ τὴν κατάβασιν. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 3:3)
  • ἄριστον οὖν ἡγούμην εἶναι παρά τινοσ τούτων διαπραξάμενον τὴν κατάβασιν ἐλθόντα παρὰ Τειρεσίαν τὸν Βοιώτιον μαθεῖν παρ’ αὐτοῦ ἅτε μάντεωσ καὶ σοφοῦ, τίσ ἐστιν ὁ ἄριστοσ βίοσ καὶ ὃν ἄν τισ ἕλοιτο εὖ φρονῶν. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 6:4)
  • ἀπαγγέλλων δὴ πρὸσ τοὺσ Φαίακασ Ὀδυσσεὺσ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πλάνην καὶ τὴν εἰσ ᾅδου κατάβασιν εἰπὼν τὰσ ὄψεισ τῶν ἐκεῖ κακῶν ἀποδίδωσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2016)
  • "ταῖσ μεταπεμψαμέναισ ἀρεσκευόμεναι κλίμακα κατεσκεύαζον ἐξ ἑαυτῶν οὕτωσ ὥστ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ νώτοισ αὐτῶν τὴν ἀνάβασιν γίγνεσθαι καὶ τὴν κατάβασιν ταῖσ ἐπὶ τῶν ἁμαξῶν ὀχουμέναισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 67 2:12)
  • συναχθέντεσ δὲ πολλοὶ πολλαχόθεν κατὰ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἧκον εἰσ Ἄσωχιν πόλιν, ἔνθα δὴ τὴν κατάλυσιν ἐποιούμην, καταβοήσεισ τε σφόδρα ἐποιοῦντο, προδότιν ἀποκαλοῦντεσ τὴν Τιβεριάδα καὶ βασιλέωσ φίλην, ἐπιτρέπειν τε ἠξίουν αὐτοῖσ καταβᾶσιν ἄρδην ἀφανίσαι· (Flavius Josephus, 452:1)

Synonyms

  1. descent

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