# καθίζω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* κατίζω (katízō) — Ionic

### Etymology

κατα- (kata-, “down”) +‎ ἵζω (hízō, “to sit”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.tʰíz.dɔː/ → /kaˈθi.zo/ → /kaˈθi.zo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /ka.tʰíz.dɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /kaˈtʰi.zo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /kaˈθi.zo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /kaˈθi.zo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /kaˈθi.zo/

### Verb

κᾰθῐ́ζω • (kăthĭ́zō)
* (causal) to make to sit down, seat
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.68
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.360
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.488
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.382
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.389
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121.5
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.1.4
** to set or place
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.36
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.549
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.204
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1541
*** 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 664
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.90
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.66
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 755E
*** to set or place for any purpose, post
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.524
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.89
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.2.14
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.155
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Publicola 19
**** 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Persians 4
** to set up
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.55
*** 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1219
** to make an assembly take their seats, convene or hold an assembly
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.69
*** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 305
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 25
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 873E
*** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 223
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 298E
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Solon 19
** to put into a certain condition
*** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Ion 535E
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.2.15
*** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, 1 51
* (intransitive) to sit down, be seated, take one's seat, sit
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.394
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.50
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.422
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.181
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Callimachus 9
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Areopagiticus 15
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 254
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 9.9.1
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.126
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 366
** 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 980
** 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 48
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 6
** 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1317
** Lob., Aj. 191
** to sit at meals
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.4.2
** to sit as judge
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.97
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.25
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 659B
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 89
** to sit down in a country, encamp
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.93
** to settle, sink in
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 254B
** (of ships) to run aground, be stranded
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 1.39.3
*** 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 2.3.4
* (middle voice, intransitive)
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.50
** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, 15 3
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 56
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 162
** (of birds) to settle, alight
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 9.10.1

#### Synonyms

* κᾰθέζομαι (kăthézomai), ἕζομαι (hézomai, “sit oneself, sit down”)
* κᾰ́θημαι (kắthēmai), ἧμαι (hêmai, “to be seated”)
* κᾰθῐζᾰ́νω (kăthĭzắnō), ῐ̔ζᾰ́νω (hĭzắnō, “to cause to sit, to sit down”)
* ῐ̔́ζω (hĭ́zō, “to cause to sit, to sit down”)

#### Derived terms

* ἀντικαθίζομαι (antikathízomai)

### Further reading

* “καθίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “καθίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “καθίζω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* καθίζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* καθίζω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “καθίζω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G2523 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek καθίζω (kathízō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈθizo/
* Hyphenation: κα‧θί‧ζω

### Verb

καθίζω • (kathízo) (past κάθισα, passive —, ppp καθισμένος)
* (causal) to make to sit down, seat
    Καθίζω το μωρό στο καρεκλάκι για να το ταΐσω.Kathízo to moró sto karekláki gia na to taḯso.I put the baby in the baby chair to feed it.
** (idiomatic) to make to sit down and listen to directions
    Με κάθισε κάτω κι άρχισε να με μαλώνει.Me káthise káto ki árchise na me malónei.He/she sat me down and started giving instructions.
* (intransitive) to settle (sink gradually to a lower level)
    Το καράβι κάθισε στα ρηχά.To karávi káthise sta richá.The boat has run aground in the shallows.

#### Derived terms

* ακαθισιά f (akathisiá, “idleness”)
* ακαθισία f (akathisía, “(medical) akathisia”)
* ακάθιστος (akáthistos, “not seated”) (also masculine noun)
* Ακάθιστος (Akáthistos, “not seated”) (title of religious hymn)
* ακατακάθιστος (akatakáthistos, “with no sediments, blurred”)
* ανακαθίζω (anakathízo, “to sit up”) & derivatives
* καθισιά f (kathisiá, “sitting”, noun) (idiomatic: at one sitting, only once)
* καθισιό n (kathisió, “idleness”)
* κάθισμα n (káthisma, “the seat, way of sitting”)
* καθιστικό n (kathistikó, “sitting room”)
* καθιστικός (kathistikós, “lounging, sedentary”)
* καθιστός (kathistós, “sitting”, adjective)
* καθίστρα f (kathístra, “(idiomatic) the reposing (day)”)
* κατακάθι n (katakáthi, “sediment”)
* κατακαθίζω (katakathízo, “create sediment”)
* κατάκαθισμα n (katákathisma, “sediment”)
* καθίζω κάτω (kathízo káto, “to make sit to scold or give instructions”, literally “to make someone sit down”)
* καθίζω στο σκαμνί (kathízo sto skamní, “to make accountable, to take to court”, literally “to make sit someone on the stool”)

#### Related terms

* καθιζάνω (kathizáno, “subside, become sediment”) and its derivatives:
** καθίζημα n (kathízima, “sediment”)
** καθίζηση f (kathízisi, “subsiding, sedimentation”)
* κάθομαι (káthomai, “to sit, to sit down”, deponent verb) & derivatives
** καθούμενος (kathoúmenos)