κατάβασιν (katabasin)

κατάβασιν is an Ancient Greek form of καταβαίνω, meaning “go down, come down”. It is the active participle dative plural masculine.

It can also be a form of κατάβασις, “way down, descent; descent from”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 20.4: … δὲ παρὰ τοὺς λεγομένους βαθμοὺς καλῆς ἀκτῆς. οὗτοι δʼ εἰσὶ περὶ τὴν εἰς τὸν ἱππόδρομον τὸν μέγαν ἐκ Παλατίου κατάβασιν.

Strabo, Geography 15.1.17: … χώραν· τοῦ μὲν οὖν χειμῶνος ὕδωρ οὐκ ἰδεῖν ἀλλὰ χιόνας μόνον· ἐν δὲ τοῖς Ταξίλοις πρῶτον ὑσθῆναι, καὶ ἐπειδὴ καταβᾶσιν ἐπὶ τὸν Ὑδάσπην καὶ νικήσασι Πῶρον ὁδὸς ἦν ἐπὶ τὸν Ὕπανιν πρὸς ἕω κἀκεῖθεν ἐπὶ τὸν Ὑδάσπην πάλιν, ὕεσθαι συνε …

All forms of καταβαίνω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.