ἠθολογία

See also: ηθολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἠθολόγος (ēthológos, “painting manners by mimic gesture”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā), from ἦθος (êthos, “character”) +‎ λόγος (lógos, “account”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɛː.tʰo.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /i.θo.loˈʝi.a/ → /i.θo.loˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.tʰo.lo.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝.tʰo.loˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.θo.loˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.θo.loˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.θo.loˈʝi.a/

Noun

ἠθολογῐ́ᾱ • (ēthologíā) f (genitive ἠθολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. a painting of character, especially by mimic gestures
   • Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 95.66
   • 200 CE – 300 CE, Aristides Quintilianus, On Music 1.9.3

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἠθολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἠθολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἠθολογῐ́ᾱ hē ēthologíā	τὼ ἠθολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ ēthologíā	αἱ ἠθολογῐ́αι hai ēthologíai
Genitive	τῆς ἠθολογῐ́ᾱς tês ēthologíās	τοῖν ἠθολογῐ́αιν toîn ēthologíain	τῶν ἠθολογῐῶν tôn ēthologiôn
Dative	τῇ ἠθολογῐ́ᾳ têi ēthologíāi	τοῖν ἠθολογῐ́αιν toîn ēthologíain	ταῖς ἠθολογῐ́αις taîs ēthologíais
Accusative	τὴν ἠθολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn ēthologíān	τὼ ἠθολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ ēthologíā	τᾱ̀ς ἠθολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ēthologíās
Vocative	ἠθολογῐ́ᾱ ēthologíā	ἠθολογῐ́ᾱ ēthologíā	ἠθολογῐ́αι ēthologíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: ēthologia

References

• “ἠθολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἠθολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette