κάτω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κᾰτᾰ́ (katá) +‎ -ω (-ō, adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.tɔː/ → /ˈka.to/ → /ˈka.to/

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

Adverb

κᾰ́τω • (kátō)

1. downwards
2. beneath, below
3. in or to the underworld (Hades)
4. on the coast
5. southward

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “most senses”): ᾰ̓́νω (ánō)

Descendants

• Greek: κάτω (káto)
• Mariupol Greek: ка́ту (kátu)

Preposition

κᾰ́τω • (kátō) (governs the genitive)

1. under, below

Further reading

• “κάτω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάτω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κάτω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κάτω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κάτω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “κάτω”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάτω (kátō).

Compare Mariupol Greek ка́ту (kátu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.to/

Adverb

κάτω • (káto)

1. down
2. below, beneath

   Antonym: άνω (áno)

Synonyms

• χάμω (chámo)

Related terms

• αποκάτω (apokáto, “underneath”)
• παρακάτω (parakáto, “further down”)
• κατα- (kata-, “below”)
• στο κάτω κάτω της γραφής (sto káto káto tis grafís, “eventually, in the end”)
• στο κάτω κάτω (sto káto káto, “eventually, in the end”)
• κατώτερος (katóteros, “lower, more inferior”)

Further reading

• κάτω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language