anabasis
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis, “a going up, an ascent”), from ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō), from ᾰ̓
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈnæbəsɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]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, page 47:
- The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.
- (obsolete) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]military march up-country
Further reading
[edit]- “anabasis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “anabasis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈna.ba.sis/, [äˈnäbäs̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈna.ba.sis/, [äˈnäːbäs̬is]
Noun
[edit]anabasis f (genitive anabasis); third declension
- a plant: horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
- Naturalis Historia, Liber I.XXVI. 77 - 78.Gaius Plinius Secundus:
- hippuris sive ephedron sive anabasis quae equisetum
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | anabasis | anabasēs |
Genitive | anabasis | anabasium |
Dative | anabasī | anabasibus |
Accusative | anabasem | anabasēs anabasīs |
Ablative | anabase | anabasibus |
Vocative | anabasis | anabasēs |
References
[edit]- “ănăbăsĭs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ănăbăsis 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)
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