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καταιβατός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταιβατός καταιβατή καταιβατόν

Structure: καταιβατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for katabato/s

Sense

  1. by which, descend, downward-leading

Examples

  • "πρὸ τῶν θυρῶν ἐφ’ αἷσ καθ’ ὃν ἀπώλοντο χρόνον οὔτ’ οἰκτίζονται τοὺσ ἀποιχομένουσ οὔτε τὰσ νομίμουσ χέονται χοάσ,1 ἀλλὰ θύουσι Διὶ Καταιβάτῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:23)

Synonyms

  1. by which

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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