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ἐτυμολογία

ἐτυμολογία

See also: ετυμολογία

Ancient Greek

Noun

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

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	τὼ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ	αἱ ἐτῠμολογῐ́αι
Genitive	τῆς ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς	τοῖν ἐτῠμολογῐ́αιν	τῶν ἐτῠμολογῐῶν
Dative	τῇ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾳ	τοῖν ἐτῠμολογῐ́αιν	ταῖς ἐτῠμολογῐ́αις
Accusative	τὴν ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱν	τὼ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ	τᾱ̀ς ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς
Vocative	ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ	ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ	ἐτῠμολογῐ́αι
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

ἐτῠμολογῐκός ‎(etumologikós) (Byzantine Greek)

Descendants

Latin: etymologia f
- English: etymology
- Russian: этимология f ‎(etimologija)

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)