"αἰτία" meaning in Ancient Greek

See αἰτία in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ai̯.tí.aː/, /ɛˈti.a/, /eˈti.a/, /ai̯.tí.aː/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ɛˈti.a/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ɛˈti.a/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /eˈti.a/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /eˈti.a/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: Either a derivative of αἴτῐος (aítios, “causing; guilty”) or directly from unattested *αἶτος (*aîtos, “share”). In either case, from *h₂ey- (“to give”), whence also αἰτέω (aitéō, “to ask”). Etymology templates: {{root|grc|ine-pro|*h₂ey-|id=give}} Head templates: {{grc-noun|αἰτῐ́ᾱς|f|first|head=αἰτῐ́ᾱ}} αἰτῐ́ᾱ • (aitíā) f (genitive αἰτῐ́ᾱς); first declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|αἰτῐ́ᾱ|αἰτῐ́ᾱς}} Forms: αἰτῐ́ᾱ [canonical], aitíā [romanization], αἰτῐ́ᾱς [genitive], Attic declension-1 [table-tags], ἡ αἰτῐ́ᾱ [nominative, singular], τὼ αἰτῐ́ᾱ [dual, nominative], αἱ αἰτῐ́αι [nominative, plural], τῆς αἰτῐ́ᾱς [genitive, singular], τοῖν αἰτῐ́αιν [dual, genitive], τῶν αἰτῐῶν [genitive, plural], τῇ αἰτῐ́ᾳ [dative, singular], τοῖν αἰτῐ́αιν [dative, dual], ταῖς αἰτῐ́αις [dative, plural], τὴν αἰτῐ́ᾱν [accusative, singular], τὼ αἰτῐ́ᾱ [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς αἰτῐ́ᾱς [accusative, plural], αἰτῐ́ᾱ [singular, vocative], αἰτῐ́ᾱ [dual, vocative], αἰτῐ́αι [plural, vocative]
  1. charge, accusation, imputation, blame, guilt, fault
    (in a good sense) credit
    Sense id: en-αἰτία-grc-noun-VvLBpHt- Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 15 25 15 25 13 5
  2. charge, accusation, imputation, blame, guilt, fault
    expostulation, admonition
    Sense id: en-αἰτία-grc-noun-u3-HbfV1 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 15 25 15 25 13 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 35 10 29 11 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 39 6 34 13 1
  3. charge, accusation, imputation, blame, guilt, fault
    Sense id: en-αἰτία-grc-noun-vrGlaO30 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 15 25 15 25 13 5
  4. (philosophy) cause Categories (topical): Philosophy
    Sense id: en-αἰτία-grc-noun-an7x7Z8V Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 15 25 15 25 13 5 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 16 16 16 31 11 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 35 10 29 11 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 39 6 34 13 1 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
  5. occasion, opportunity, motive
    Sense id: en-αἰτία-grc-noun-g5G5U~Mn Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 15 25 15 25 13 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 35 10 29 11 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 39 6 34 13 1
  6. category
    Sense id: en-αἰτία-grc-noun-7bLNO3TJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: αἰτιατός → αἰτιατικός (aitiatikós)
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          "text": "467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 4"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 503B"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 119A"
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          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 984B.19"
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          "text": "366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 169A"
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          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 435E"
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          "text": "440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On his Return 12"
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          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 624A"
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          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.35"
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          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 579"
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        {
          "text": "442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1312"
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        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.70"
        },
        {
          "text": "422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 506"
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        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 38C"
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          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 249D"
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        {
          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 99"
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          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 565B"
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          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.70–71"
        },
        {
          "text": "409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1404"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 67"
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        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.8.6"
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        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 33B"
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        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.3.16"
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        {
          "text": "389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.139"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.60"
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        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 52A"
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        {
          "text": "445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Olive Stump 1"
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          "text": "366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 150A"
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          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Letters 2.2"
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          "text": "525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 332"
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          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.106"
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        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.60"
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          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 656"
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        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.26"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 28"
        },
        {
          "text": "330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 283"
        },
        {
          "text": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Second Tetralogy 2.4"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 21"
        },
        {
          "text": "421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 640"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.88"
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          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 97A"
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          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 464B"
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          "text": "60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.29"
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          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.11"
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      "ipa": "/ɛˈti.a/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Either a derivative of αἴτῐος (aítios, “causing; guilty”) or directly from unattested *αἶτος (*aîtos, “share”). In either case, from *h₂ey- (“to give”), whence also αἰτέω (aitéō, “to ask”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "αἰτῐ́ᾱ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "aitíā",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰτῐ́ᾱς",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-1",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "First declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ αἰτῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "hē aitíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ αἰτῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ aitíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ αἰτῐ́αι",
      "roman": "hai aitíai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς αἰτῐ́ᾱς",
      "roman": "tês aitíās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν αἰτῐ́αιν",
      "roman": "toîn aitíain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν αἰτῐῶν",
      "roman": "tôn aitiôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ αἰτῐ́ᾳ",
      "roman": "têi aitíāi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν αἰτῐ́αιν",
      "roman": "toîn aitíain",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς αἰτῐ́αις",
      "roman": "taîs aitíais",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν αἰτῐ́ᾱν",
      "roman": "tḕn aitíān",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ αἰτῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "tṑ aitíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς αἰτῐ́ᾱς",
      "roman": "tā̀s aitíās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰτῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "aitíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰτῐ́ᾱ",
      "roman": "aitíā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἰτῐ́αι",
      "roman": "aitíai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "αἰτῐ́ᾱς",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "first",
        "head": "αἰτῐ́ᾱ"
      },
      "expansion": "αἰτῐ́ᾱ • (aitíā) f (genitive αἰτῐ́ᾱς); first declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "αἰτῐ́ᾱ",
        "2": "αἰτῐ́ᾱς"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "aitiatikós",
      "word": "αἰτιατός → αἰτιατικός"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 4"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 503B"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 119A"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 984B.19"
        },
        {
          "text": "366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 169A"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 435E"
        },
        {
          "text": "440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On his Return 12"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 624A"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "charge, accusation, imputation, blame, guilt, fault",
        "credit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "accusation",
          "accusation"
        ],
        [
          "imputation",
          "imputation"
        ],
        [
          "blame",
          "blame"
        ],
        [
          "guilt",
          "guilt"
        ],
        [
          "fault",
          "fault"
        ],
        [
          "credit",
          "credit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "charge, accusation, imputation, blame, guilt, fault",
        "(in a good sense) credit"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in a good sense"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.69"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "charge, accusation, imputation, blame, guilt, fault",
        "expostulation, admonition"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "accusation",
          "accusation"
        ],
        [
          "imputation",
          "imputation"
        ],
        [
          "blame",
          "blame"
        ],
        [
          "guilt",
          "guilt"
        ],
        [
          "fault",
          "fault"
        ],
        [
          "expostulation",
          "expostulation"
        ],
        [
          "admonition",
          "admonition"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.35"
        },
        {
          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 579"
        },
        {
          "text": "442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1312"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.70"
        },
        {
          "text": "422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 506"
        },
        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 38C"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 249D"
        },
        {
          "text": "458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 99"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 565B"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.70–71"
        },
        {
          "text": "409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1404"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 67"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.8.6"
        },
        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 33B"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.3.16"
        },
        {
          "text": "389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.139"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.60"
        },
        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Crito 52A"
        },
        {
          "text": "445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Olive Stump 1"
        },
        {
          "text": "366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 150A"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Letters 2.2"
        },
        {
          "text": "525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 332"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.106"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.60"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 656"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.26"
        },
        {
          "text": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 28"
        },
        {
          "text": "330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 283"
        },
        {
          "text": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Second Tetralogy 2.4"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 21"
        },
        {
          "text": "421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 640"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.88"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "charge, accusation, imputation, blame, guilt, fault"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "charge",
          "charge"
        ],
        [
          "accusation",
          "accusation"
        ],
        [
          "imputation",
          "imputation"
        ],
        [
          "blame",
          "blame"
        ],
        [
          "guilt",
          "guilt"
        ],
        [
          "fault",
          "fault"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "grc:Philosophy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 194B.16"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 983A.26"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 97A"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 464B"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.87"
        },
        {
          "text": "60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.29"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cause"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(philosophy) cause"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 7.11"
        },
        {
          "text": "125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Tyrannicide 13"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "occasion, opportunity, motive"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "occasion",
          "occasion"
        ],
        [
          "opportunity",
          "opportunity"
        ],
        [
          "motive",
          "motive"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 75"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "category"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "category",
          "category"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯.tí.aː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈti.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈti.a/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ai̯.tí.aː/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈti.a/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛˈti.a/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈti.a/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/eˈti.a/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "αἰτία"
}

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