κοσμογονία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κόσμος (kósmos) + the root of γίγνομαι (gígnomai) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /koz.mo.ɡo.ní.aː/ → /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/ → /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /koz.mo.ɡo.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koz.mo.ɡoˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/

Noun

κοσμογονίᾱ • (kosmogoníā) f (genitive κοσμογονίᾱς); first declension

1. creation or origin of the world

Declension

First declension of ἡ κοσμογονῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κοσμογονῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ κοσμογονῐ́ᾱ hē kosmogoníā
Genitive	τῆς κοσμογονῐ́ᾱς tês kosmogoníās
Dative	τῇ κοσμογονῐ́ᾳ têi kosmogoníāi
Accusative	τὴν κοσμογονῐ́ᾱν tḕn kosmogoníān
Vocative	κοσμογονῐ́ᾱ kosmogoníā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Czech: kosmogonie
• → Dutch: kosmogonie
• → English: cosmogony
• → Esperanto: kosmogonio
• → Finnish: kosmogonia
• → French: cosmogonie
• → Galician: cosmogonía
• → German: Kosmogonie
• → Italian: cosmogonia
• → Portuguese: cosmogonia
• → Romanian: cosmogonie
• → Russian: космого́ния (kosmogónija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kozmogònija
• → Spanish: cosmogonía
• → Ukrainian: космого́нія (kosmohónija)

Further reading

• κοσμογονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κοσμογονία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “κοσμογονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press