ματαιολογία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ματαιολόγος (mataiológos) + -ίᾱ (-íā), from μάταιος (mátaios) + λόγος (lógos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ma.tai̯.o.lo.ɡí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ma.tɛ.o.loˈɡi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ma.tɛ.o.loˈʝi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ma.te.o.loˈʝi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ma.te.o.loˈʝi.a/
Noun
μᾰταιολογίᾱ • (mataiologíā) f (genitive μᾰταιολογίᾱς); first declension
- idle or empty talk, babble
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱ hē mataiologíā |
τὼ μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ mataiologíā |
αἱ μᾰταιολογῐ́αι hai mataiologíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱς tês mataiologíās |
τοῖν μᾰταιολογῐ́αιν toîn mataiologíain |
τῶν μᾰταιολογῐῶν tôn mataiologiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾳ têi mataiologíāi |
τοῖν μᾰταιολογῐ́αιν toîn mataiologíain |
ταῖς μᾰταιολογῐ́αις taîs mataiologíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn mataiologíān |
τὼ μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ mataiologíā |
τᾱ̀ς μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s mataiologíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱ mataiologíā |
μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱ mataiologíā |
μᾰταιολογῐ́αι mataiologíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌴𐌹 (lausawaurdei) (calque)
Further reading
- “ματαιολογία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ματαιολογία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3150 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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