aetiology

English

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Alternative forms

• ætiology
• etiology (American)

Etymology

From Latin aetiologia, from Ancient Greek αἰτιολογία (aitiologia), from αἰτία (“cause”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /iːtɪˈɒlədʒi/

Noun

aetiology (countable and uncountable; plural aetiologies)

1. The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.c:

     I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams [transl. Traumätiologie].

2. The study of causes or causation.
3. (medicine) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with etymology.

Derived terms

• etiologic
• etiological
• etiologically
• etiologist

Translations

study of causes or origins

Catalan: etiologia f. Chinese: Mandarin: 原因論 (cmn), 原因论 (cmn) (yuányīnlùn) Croatian: etiologija (hr) f. Czech: etiologie (cs) f. Dutch: etiologie (nl) f. Esperanto: etiologio (eo) Finnish: etiologia (fi), syyoppi (fi) French: étiologie (fr) f. German: Ätiologie (de) f. Hebrew: אטיולוגיה (etiologia) f. Hungarian: etiológia (hu)

Italian: eziologia (it) f. Khmer: សមុដ្ឋានវិទ្យា (km) (sa’muttʰaan vityie) Lithuanian: etiologija (lt) f. Norwegian: etiologi Polish: etiologia (pl) f. Portuguese: etiologia (pt) f. Russian: этиология (ru) (etiológija) f. Serbian: етиологија f. Spanish: etiología f. Swedish: etiologi c. Turkish: etiyoloji (tr)

origins of a disease

Chinese: Mandarin: 病原學 (cmn), 病原学 (cmn) (bìngyuánxué), 病因學 (cmn), 病因学 (cmn) (bìngyīnxué)

Finnish: etiologia (fi), taudinsyy (fi)