ταὐτολογία

See also: ταυτολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ταὐτός ‎(tautós, “identical”) + λόγος ‎(lógos, “reasoning, account”) + -ια ‎(-ia)

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /ta͜ʊtoloɡí.a͜a/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /taʍtoloɣíaː/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /taɸtoloɣía/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /taftoloʝía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /taftoloʝía/

Noun

ταὐτολογίᾱ • ‎(tautologíā) f ‎(genitive ταὐτολογίας); first declension

1. tautology
   • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 23
   • Eustathius

Inflection

First declension of ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ, ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ	ταὐτολογῐ́αι
Genitive	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς	ταὐτολογῐ́αιν	ταὐτολογῐῶν
Dative	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾳ	ταὐτολογῐ́αιν	ταὐτολογῐ́αις
Accusative	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱν	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱς
Vocative	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ	ταὐτολογῐ́ᾱ	ταὐτολογῐ́αι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

References

• 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
• LSJ 8th edition