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αἰτιατικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰτιατικός αἰτιατική αἰτιατικόν

Structure: αἰτιατικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. causal
  2. (elliptically for αἰτιατική πτῶσις ‎(ptôsis)) the accusative case

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἀκολούθωσ τῇ κοινῇ συνηθείᾳ σχηματίζοντεσ τὴν φράσιν τῷ τε θηλυκῷ γένει τῆσ προσηγορίασ τὸ θηλυκὸν ἂν ἔζευξαν μόριον, καὶ τὴν πτῶσιν τὴν αἰτιατικὴν ἂν ἀντὶ τῆσ γενικῆσ ἔταξαν τὸν τρόπον τόνδε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 11 1:2)
  • οἱ δὲ τὰ ἀρρενικὰ τοῖσ θηλυκοῖσ συντάττοντεσ, ὥσπερ οὗτοσ πεποίηκεν, καὶ τὰσ γενικὰσ ἀντὶ τῶν αἰτιατικῶν πτώσεων παραλαμβάνοντεσ σολοικίζειν ἂν ὑφ’ ἡμῶν λέγοιντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 11 1:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῆσ δοτικῆσ πτώσεωσ ἐσχηματίσθαι τὴν λέξιν ἡρ́μοττεν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τῆσ αἰτιατικῆσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 11 2:2)
  • τοῦτο δὲ οὔτε τῷ θηλυκῷ καὶ ἑνικῷ καὶ ὀνοματικῷ προσαρμοττόμενον σῴζει τὴν ἀκολουθίαν οὔτε τῷ πληθυντικῷ καὶ οὐδετέρῳ καὶ κατὰ τὴν αἰτιατικὴν ἐσχηματισμένῳ πτῶσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 37 2:1)
  • "τὸν λαγὼν ἐπ’ αἰτιατικῆσ ἐν Δαναίσιν Ἀριστοφάνησ ὀξυτόνωσ καὶ μετὰ τοῦ λέγει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 622)

Synonyms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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