ματαιολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ματαιολόγος (mataiológos) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā), from μάταιος (mátaios) + λόγος (lógos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ma.tai̯.o.lo.ɡí.aː/ → /ma.tɛ.o.loˈʝi.a/ → /ma.te.o.loˈʝi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ma.tai̯.o.lo.ɡí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ma.tɛ.o.loˈɡi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ma.tɛ.o.loˈʝi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ma.te.o.loˈʝi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ma.te.o.loˈʝi.a/

Noun

μᾰταιολογίᾱ • (mataiologíā) f (genitive μᾰταιολογίᾱς); first declension

1. idle or empty talk, babble

Declension

First declension of ἡ μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς μᾰταιολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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