κατώτερος

English (LSJ)

α, ον, Comp. Adj. from κάτω,

   A lower, Hp.Fract.31, LXX 3 Ki.9.17, etc.; τὰ κ. μέρη τῆς Ep.Eph.4.9; more southerly, Vett. Val.34.21.    2 of Time, later, younger, Call.Cer.131. Adv. κατωτέρω, v. κάτω.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1407] compar. zu κάτω, der untere, Hippocr. u. Sp. – Von der Zeit, der spätere, jüngere, Callim. Cer. 131. – Κατωτέρω, s. κάτω.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

κατώτερος: αον, συγκρ. ἐπίθ. ἐκ τοῦ κάτω, χαμηλότερος, Ἱππ. Ἀγμ. 773, κτλ.· ἐπὶ χρόνου, μεταγενέστερος, νεώτερος, Καλλ. εἰς Δήμ. 130·- Ἐπίρρ. κατωτέρω, ἴδε ἐν λ. κάτω.

English (Strong)

comparative from κάτω; inferior (locally, of Hades): lower.

English (Thayer)

κατώτερα, κατώτερον (comparitive of κάτω, see ἀνώτερος) (Hippocrates, Theophrastus, Athen., others), lower: (ὁ Χριστός) κατέβη εἰς τά κατώτερα μέρη τῆς γῆς, τόν τόπον τόν κάτω καλούμενον, Plato, Phaedo, p. 112c.), taking τῆς γῆς as a partitive genitive (see ᾅδης, 2). But the mention of tiffs fact is at variance with the connection. Paul is endeavoring to show that the passage he has just before quoted, τά κατώτερα τῆς γῆς denotes, the lower parts of the universe, which the earth constitutes — τῆς γῆς being a genitive of apposition; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 59,8a.; Grimm, Institutio theol. dogmat. edition 2, p. 355ff