αἰτιολογία

See also: αιτιολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αἰτίᾱ (aitíā, “cause”) +‎ -λογίᾱ (-logíā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ai̯.ti.o.lo.ɡí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ɛ.ti.o.loˈɡi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɛ.ti.o.loˈʝi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ti.o.loˈʝi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.ti.o.loˈʝi.a/

Noun

αἰτῐολογίᾱ • (aitĭologíā) f (genitive αἰτῐολογίᾱς); first declension

(the act of) giving the cause of something

Declension

First declension of ἡ αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ hē aitĭologĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱς tês aitĭologĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾳ tēî aitĭologĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn aitĭologĭ́ān
Vocative	αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ aitĭologĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 (2006–2025)
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
Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “αἰτιολογία”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn