αἰτιολογία

See also: αιτιολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ai̯.ti.o.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /ɛ.ti.o.loˈʝi.a/ → /e.ti.o.loˈʝi.a/

• (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

1. (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 (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn