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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

  • οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅπωσ τοῦτ’ ἔστι τὸ τέρασ οὐ Διὸσ καταιβάτου. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 1:32)
  • καὶ τὸν τόπον ὅπου πρῶτον ἀπέβη τοῦ ἁρ́ματοσ, καθιερώσαντεσ καὶ βωμὸν ἐπιθέντεσ Δημητρίου Καταιβάτου προσηγόρευσαν· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 10 4:2)
  • τοῦ δὲ Καταιβάτου Διὸσ προβέβληται μὲν πανταχόθεν πρὸ τοῦ βωμοῦ φράγμα, ἔστι δὲ πρὸσ τῷ βωμῷ τῷ ἀπὸ τῆσ τέφρασ τῷ μεγάλῳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 16:4)

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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