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Webster 1913 Edition
anabasis
‖
a-nab′a-sis
(ȧ-năb′ȧ-sĭs)
, Noun.
[Gr.
ἀνάβασις
, fr. ἀναβαίνειν
to go up; ἀνά
up + βαίνειν
to go.] 1.
A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called “The Anabasis.”
The
anabasis
of Napoleon. De Quincey.
2.
(Med.)
The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
[Obs.]
AS
Definition 2024
anabasis
anabasis
English
Noun
anabasis (plural anabases)
- 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
Translations
military march up-country
External links
- anabasis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- anabasis in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈna.ba.sis/, [aˈna.ba.sɪs]
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 i-stem.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | anabasis | anabasēs |
genitive | anabasis | anabasium |
dative | anabasī | anabasibus |
accusative | anabasem | anabasēs |
ablative | anabase | anabasibus |
vocative | anabasis | anabasēs |
References
- ănăbăsĭs in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ănăbăsis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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)