ἐτυμολογία

See also: ετυμολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐτῠμόλογος (etŭmólogos) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

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 • (etŭmologĭ́ā) 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	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ hē etŭmologĭ́ā	αἱ ἐτῠμολογῐ́αι hai etŭmologĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς tês etŭmologĭ́ās	τῶν ἐτῠμολογῐῶν tôn etŭmologĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾳ tēî etŭmologĭ́āi	ταῖς ἐτῠμολογῐ́αις taîs etŭmologĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn etŭmologĭ́ān	τᾱ̀ς ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s etŭmologĭ́ās
Vocative	ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ etŭmologĭ́ā	ἐτῠμολογῐ́αι etŭmologĭ́ai

Derived terms

• ἐτῠμολογῐκός (etŭmologĭkós) (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)