Anabasisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis, “a going up, an ascent”), from ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō), from ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ana-, “up”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈnæbəsɪs/

名詞

anabasis (複数形 anabases)

1. (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, p. 47:

     The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.

2. (obsolete) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.

反意語

• catabasis, katabasis

Further reading

• “anabasis” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• anabasis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈna.ba.sis/, [äˈnäbäs̠ɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈna.ba.sis/, [äˈnäːbäs̬is]

名詞

anabasis f (genitive anabasis); third declension

1. a plant: horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
   • Naturalis Historia, Liber I.XXVI. 77 - 78.Gaius Plinius Secundus:

     hippuris sive ephedron sive anabasis quae equisetum