αἰτιολογία
See also: αιτιολογία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αἰτῐ́ᾱ (aitĭ́ā, “cause”) + -λογίᾱ (-logíā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ai̯.ti.o.lo.ɡí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɛ.ti.o.loˈɡi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɛ.ti.o.loˈʝi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.ti.o.loˈʝi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.ti.o.loˈʝi.a/
Noun
αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ • (aitĭologĭ́ā) f (genitive αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- (the act of) giving the cause of something
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ hē aitĭologĭ́ā |
τὼ αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ aitĭologĭ́ā |
αἱ αἰτῐολογῐ́αι hai aitĭologĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱς tês aitĭologĭ́ās |
τοῖν αἰτῐολογῐ́αιν toîn aitĭologĭ́ain |
τῶν αἰτῐολογῐῶν tôn aitĭologĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾳ tēî aitĭologĭ́āi |
τοῖν αἰτῐολογῐ́αιν toîn aitĭologĭ́ain |
ταῖς αἰτῐολογῐ́αις taîs aitĭologĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn aitĭologĭ́ān |
τὼ αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ aitĭologĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s aitĭologĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ aitĭologĭ́ā |
αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ aitĭologĭ́ā |
αἰτῐολογῐ́αι aitĭologĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- αἰτιολογέω (aitiologéō)
- αἰτιολογητέον (aitiologētéon)
- αἰτιολογικός (aitiologikós)
- ἀναιτιολόγητος (anaitiológētos)
- δυσαιτιολόγητος (dusaitiológētos)
- ἐξαιτιολογέω (exaitiologéō)
Descendants
Descendants
- Greek: αιτιολογία (aitiología)
- → Asturian: etioloxía
- → Catalan: etiologia
- → Czech: etiologie
- → Danish: ætiologi
- → Dutch: etiologie
- → English: aetiologia, aetiology, etiology
- → Esperanto: etiologio
- → Finnish: etiologia
- → French: étiologie
- → Northern Kurdish: etiyolojî
- → Turkish: etiyoloji
- → Galician: etioloxía
- → German: Ätiologie
- → Hebrew: אטיולוגיה (etiologia)
- → Hungarian: etiológia
- → Interlingua: etiologia
- → Italian: etiologia, eziologia
- → Late Latin: aetiologia
- → Lithuanian: etiologija
- → Norwegian: etiologi
- → Polish: etiologia
- → Portuguese: etiologia
- → Romanian: etiologie
- → Russian: этиоло́гия (etiológija)
- → Kazakh: этиология (étiologiä)
- → Serbo-Croatian: etiològija
- → Spanish: etiología
- → Swedish: etiologi
- → Ukrainian: етіоло́гія (etiolóhija)
Further reading
- αἰτιολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αἰτιολογία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
- αἰτιολογία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “αἰτιολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- αἰτιολογία in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn