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 • (tautologíā) 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 tautologíā	τὼ ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ tautologíā	αἱ ταὐτολογῐ́αι hai tautologíai
Genitive	τῆς ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς tês tautologíās	τοῖν ταὐτολογῐ́αιν toîn tautologíain	τῶν ταὐτολογῐῶν tôn tautologiôn
Dative	τῇ ταὐτολογῐ́ᾳ têi tautologíāi	τοῖν ταὐτολογῐ́αιν toîn tautologíain	ταῖς ταὐτολογῐ́αις taîs tautologíais
Accusative	τὴν ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn tautologíān	τὼ ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ tautologíā	τᾱ̀ς ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s tautologíās
Vocative	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ tautologíā	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ tautologíā	ταὐτολογῐ́αι tautologíai
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