Talk:katabasis

RFV discussion: March–April 2022
The one definition says "A journey downwards: a journey downhill, a decrease of winds, a military retreat, a trip to the underworld; a trip from the interior of a country to the coast." I highly doubt it's used in English of going downhill, a decrease in winds, or a trip to the coast. The senses should also be separated. --Simplificationalizer (talk) 22:49, 10 March 2022 (UTC)


 * The OED's definition is very specific: "A going down; a military retreat, in allusion to that of the ten thousand Greeks under Xenophon, related by him in his Anabasis." (The situation seems similar to, which I was looking at just now; we define it as "marriage for a fourth time", but in practice it only refers to the so-called Tetragamy affair of .)
 * Wikipedia has, which is worth consulting. Anyone trying to cite this should also look for uses of the alternative form catabasis. This, that and the other (talk) 00:46, 11 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Are we sure it  means a     decrease   in winds rather than a downhill motion ?   I would expect it to   align with the meaning of katabatic. — Soap — 17:32, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That sense is nonsense and is going to get deleted soon. However, sense 4 is not nonsense. When I was searching for this word a few weeks ago I remember finding various things that hinted at that sense - perhaps they were mentions or italicised uses. Some more looking might be in order. This, that and the other (talk) 13:46, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Senses 1, 2 and 3 cited. Sense 4 is a definite maybe. Sense 5 can fail. This, that and the other (talk) 04:04, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

cited. I changed the wind definition to the presence of winds, which is used in some of the literature about Antarctica, although it is rare. Kiwima (talk) 05:12, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 08:50, 30 April 2022 (UTC)