ἐτυμολογία

See also: ετυμολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐτῠμόλογος (etumólogos) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.ty.mo.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /e.ty.mo.loˈʝi.a/ → /e.ti.mo.loˈʝi.a/

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

Noun

ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ • (etumologíā) f (genitive ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension (Koine)

1. etymology
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 16.4.29
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 16
   • 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs 153.13
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.354

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς (Koine)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ hē etumologíā	τὼ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ etumologíā	αἱ ἐτῠμολογῐ́αι hai etumologíai
Genitive	τῆς ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς tês etumologíās	τοῖν ἐτῠμολογῐ́αιν toîn etumologíain	τῶν ἐτῠμολογῐῶν tôn etumologiôn
Dative	τῇ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾳ têi etumologíāi	τοῖν ἐτῠμολογῐ́αιν toîn etumologíain	ταῖς ἐτῠμολογῐ́αις taîs etumologíais
Accusative	τὴν ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn etumologíān	τὼ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ etumologíā	τᾱ̀ς ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s etumologíās
Vocative	ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ etumologíā	ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ etumologíā	ἐτῠμολογῐ́αι etumologíai

Derived terms

• ἐτῠμολογῐκός (etumologikós) (Byzantine Greek)

Descendants

• Latin: etymologia f, ethimologia (Medieval Latin)
  • Catalan: etimologia
  • → Czech: etymologie f
  • → Danish: etymologi
  • → Dutch: etymologie
  • → English: etymology
  • → Finnish: etymologia
  • French: étymologie
  • Friulian: etimologjie
  • → German: Etymologie
  • Italian: etimologia
  • → Lithuanian: etimologija
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: etymologi
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: etymologi
  • → Polish: etymologia
  • Occitan: etimologia
  • → Old Ruthenian: етимоло́ґїа (etimológia)
  • Piedmontese: etimologìa
  • Portuguese: etimologia
  • Romanian: etimologie
  • → Russian: этимология f (etimologija)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: etimologija
  • → Slovak: etymológia f
  • → Slovene: etimologija
  • Spanish: etimología
  • → Swedish: etymologi

References

• “ἐτυμολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐτυμολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Encyclopedia Papyrus-Larousse (1963)