# καταβαίνω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* καβαίνω (kabaínō) — Poetic

### Etymology

From κᾰτᾰ- (kata-, “down”) +‎ βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.ta.bǎi̯.nɔː/ → /ka.taˈβɛ.no/ → /ka.taˈve.no/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ka.ta.bǎi̯.nɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ka.taˈbɛ.no/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ka.taˈβɛ.no/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ka.taˈve.no/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ka.taˈve.no/

### Verb

κᾰτᾰβαίνω • (katabaínō)
* to step down, to go or come down
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.17
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.329
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.184
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.252
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.337
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.252
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 18.206
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.85
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.330
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.350
** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 409
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 11.7
** to dismount from a chariot or a horse
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.109
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.76
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 6.87
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.5.6
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus 24
** to go down from the inland parts to the sea, especially from central Asia
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.94
** to come to land, get safely ashore
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.63
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.73
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 511B
** to go down into the arena, to fight, wrestle, race
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.22
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 504
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.27
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 833D
*** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1514
** (of an orator) to come down from the tribune
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 128.33
*** 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 23
*** 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 113
*** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 979
*** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Toxaris 35
*** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Descent Into Hades
** (rarely of things)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.19
*** 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 111
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 118D
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 7.2.6
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 15.35
** (figuratively)
*** to come to in a course of speaking
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.116
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.90
*** to come to the same point, agree
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 7.16.5
*** to come down, fall
**** ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 1.51
*** to condescend
** to go one's way, advance
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.73
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.63

#### Related terms

* καταιβατός (kataibatós)

#### Descendants

* Byzantine Greek: κατεβαίνω (katebaínō)
** Greek: κατεβαίνω (katevaíno)

### References

* “καταβαίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “καταβαίνω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “καταβαίνω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* καταβαίνω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* καταβαίνω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “καταβαίνω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G2597 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible