different between anabasis vs anabatic
anabasis
English
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ???????? (anábasis, “a going up, an ascent”), from ???????? (anabaín?), from ????- (ana-, “up”) + ????? (baín?, “to go”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??næb?s?s/
Noun
anabasis (plural anabases)
- (historical) a military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
- 1838, Thomas de Quincey, The Avenger:
- During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty?second year.
- 1989, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
- ‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.’ They looked at him as if he were barmy.
- 1989, Frederic Stewart Colwell, Rivermen, p. 47:
- The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.
- 1838, Thomas de Quincey, The Avenger:
- (obsolete) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
Antonyms
- catabasis, katabasis
Translations
Further reading
- anabasis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- anabasis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ???????? (anábasis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a?na.ba.sis/, [ä?näbäs??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a?na.ba.sis/, [??n??b?s?is]
Noun
anabasis f (genitive anabasis); third declension
- a plant: horse-tail
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- ?n?b?s?s in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ?n?b?sis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 121/2
- anabasis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “anabasis” on page 125/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
anabasis From the web:
anabatic
English
Adjective
anabatic (comparative more anabatic, superlative most anabatic)
- (of a warm air current) rising (up a slope)
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to anabasis
Antonyms
- katabatic
Translations
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