πρωτολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

πρωτολόγος (prōtológos, “speaking first”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /prɔː.to.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /pro.to.loˈʝi.a/ → /pro.to.loˈʝi.a/

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

Noun

πρωτολογῐ́ᾱ • (prōtologíā) f (genitive πρωτολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. the right of speaking first in a law-court, the part of the prosecutor
   • 380 BCE – 318 BCE, Demades, Collected Works 3
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Proverbs 18.17:

     δίκαιος ἑαυτοῦ κατήγορος ἐν πρωτολογίᾳ, ὡς δ’ ἂν ἐπιβάλῃ ὁ ἀντίδικος ἐλέγχεται.

     díkaios heautoû katḗgoros en prōtologíāi, hōs d’ àn epibálēi ho antídikos elénkhetai.

2. the right of the leading advocate to speak first
   • Argumenta Orationum Demosthenicarum 20

Declension

First declension of ἡ πρωτολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς πρωτολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πρωτολογῐ́ᾱ hē prōtologíā	τὼ πρωτολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ prōtologíā	αἱ πρωτολογῐ́αι hai prōtologíai
Genitive	τῆς πρωτολογῐ́ᾱς tês prōtologíās	τοῖν πρωτολογῐ́αιν toîn prōtologíain	τῶν πρωτολογῐῶν tôn prōtologiôn
Dative	τῇ πρωτολογῐ́ᾳ têi prōtologíāi	τοῖν πρωτολογῐ́αιν toîn prōtologíain	ταῖς πρωτολογῐ́αις taîs prōtologíais
Accusative	τὴν πρωτολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn prōtologíān	τὼ πρωτολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ prōtologíā	τᾱ̀ς πρωτολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s prōtologíās
Vocative	πρωτολογῐ́ᾱ prōtologíā	πρωτολογῐ́ᾱ prōtologíā	πρωτολογῐ́αι prōtologíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: protology

Further reading

• “πρωτολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πρωτολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “πρωτολογία”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn