ταὐτολογία

See also: ταυτολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ταὐτός (tautós, “identical”) + λόγος (lógos, “reasoning, account”) + -ια (-ia).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tau̯.to.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /taɸ.to.loˈʝi.a/ → /taf.to.loˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tau̯.to.lo.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /taʍ.to.loˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /taɸ.to.loˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /taf.to.loˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /taf.to.loˈʝi.a/

Noun

ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ • (tautologĭ́ā) f (genitive ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. tautology
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 23
   • Eustathius

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ hē tautologĭ́ā	τὼ ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ tautologĭ́ā	αἱ ταὐτολογῐ́αι hai tautologĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς tês tautologĭ́ās	τοῖν ταὐτολογῐ́αιν toîn tautologĭ́ain	τῶν ταὐτολογῐῶν tôn tautologĭôn
Dative	τῇ ταὐτολογῐ́ᾳ tēî tautologĭ́āi	τοῖν ταὐτολογῐ́αιν toîn tautologĭ́ain	ταῖς ταὐτολογῐ́αις taîs tautologĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn tautologĭ́ān	τὼ ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ tautologĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s tautologĭ́ās
Vocative	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ tautologĭ́ā	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ tautologĭ́ā	ταὐτολογῐ́αι tautologĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ταὐτολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ταὐτολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette