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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromᾰ̓νᾰβᾰτός“moving upward”
- English todayanabatic
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰβᾰτός (ănăbătós, “moving upward”), from ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “up”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.