κάθοδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κατά (katá, “down”) +‎ ὁδός (hodós, “way, road”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.tʰo.dos/ → /ˈka.θo.ðos/ → /ˈka.θo.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.tʰo.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.tʰo.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.θo.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.θo.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.θo.ðos/

Noun

κᾰ́θοδος • (kắthodos) f (genitive κᾰθόδου); second declension

1. way down, descent

   Synonym: κατάβασις (katábasis)

   Antonym: ἄνοδος (ánodos)

Declension

Second declension of ἡ κᾰ́θοδος; τῆς κᾰθόδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κᾰ́θοδος hē kắthodos	τὼ κᾰθόδω tṑ kăthódō	αἱ κᾰ́θοδοι hai kắthodoi
Genitive	τῆς κᾰθόδου tês kăthódou	τοῖν κᾰθόδοιν toîn kăthódoin	τῶν κᾰθόδων tôn kăthódōn
Dative	τῇ κᾰθόδῳ têi kăthódōi	τοῖν κᾰθόδοιν toîn kăthódoin	ταῖς κᾰθόδοις taîs kăthódois
Accusative	τὴν κᾰ́θοδον tḕn kắthodon	τὼ κᾰθόδω tṑ kăthódō	τᾱ̀ς κᾰθόδους tā̀s kăthódous
Vocative	κᾰ́θοδε kắthode	κᾰθόδω kăthódō	κᾰ́θοδοι kắthodoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: cathode
• Greek: κάθοδος (káthodos)

Further reading

• “κάθοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάθοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάθοδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • recall idem, page 678.
  • reinstatement idem, page 688.
  • restoration idem, page 705.
  • return idem, page 708.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κᾰ́θοδος (kắthodos).

Noun

κάθοδος • (káthodos) f (plural κάθοδοι)

1. (physics, chemistry, electricity) cathode

   Antonyms: άνοδος (ánodos), ιόν (ión)

   Coordinate terms: ηλεκτρόδιο (ilektródio), ιόν (ión)

2. decrease
3. descent, route downwards
4. route southwards
5. (politics) participation in an election

Declension

Declension of κάθοδος

	singular	plural
nominative	κάθοδος (káthodos)	κάθοδοι (káthodoi)
genitive	καθόδου (kathódou)	καθόδων (kathódon)
accusative	κάθοδο (káthodo)	καθόδους (kathódous)
vocative	κάθοδε (káthode) κάθοδο (káthodo)	κάθοδοι (káthodoi)

Further reading

• Ηλεκτρόδιο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el