κοσμογονία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κόσμος (kósmos) + the root of γίγνομαι (gígnomai) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /koz.mo.ɡo.ní.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /koz.mo.ɡoˈni.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/
Noun
κοσμογονίᾱ • (kosmogoníā) f (genitive κοσμογονίᾱς); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ κοσμογονῐ́ᾱ hē kosmogonĭ́ā | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κοσμογονῐ́ᾱς tês kosmogonĭ́ās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κοσμογονῐ́ᾳ tēî kosmogonĭ́āi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κοσμογονῐ́ᾱν tḕn kosmogonĭ́ān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | κοσμογονῐ́ᾱ kosmogonĭ́ā | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Czech: kosmogonie
- → Dutch: kosmogonie
- → English: cosmogony
- → Esperanto: kosmogonio
- → Finnish: kosmogonia
- → French: cosmogonie
- → Galician: cosmogonía
- → German: Kosmogonie
- → Italian: cosmogonia
- → Portuguese: cosmogonia
- → Romanian: cosmogonie
- → Russian: космого́ния (kosmogónija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kozmogònija
- → Spanish: cosmogonía
- → Ukrainian: космого́нія (kosmohónija)
Further reading
- κοσμογονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κοσμογονία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “κοσμογονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press