different between katabasis vs anabasis

English

Alternative forms

• catabasis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (katábasis), from verb ????????? (katabaín?), from ???? (katá, “downwards”) + ????? (baín?, “go”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?t?'b?sis, IPA^(key): /k??tæb?s?s/

Noun

katabasis (plural katabases)

1. A journey downwards: a journey downhill, a decrease of winds, a military retreat, a trip to the underworld; a trip from the interior of a country to the coast.

Antonyms

• anabasis

Translations

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)

1. (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.

2. (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

1. 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)