φιλολογία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φιλόλογος (philólogos, “loving words”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Noun

φῐλολογῐ́ᾱ • (philologíā) f (genitive φῐλολογῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. love of reasoning
2. love of learning, love of literature

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φῐλολογῐ́ᾱ; τῆς φῐλολογῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῐλολογῐ́ᾱ hē philologíā	τὼ φῐλολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ philologíā	αἱ φῐλολογῐ́αι hai philologíai
Genitive	τῆς φῐλολογῐ́ᾱς tês philologíās	τοῖν φῐλολογῐ́αιν toîn philologíain	τῶν φῐλολογῐῶν tôn philologiôn
Dative	τῇ φῐλολογῐ́ᾳ têi philologíāi	τοῖν φῐλολογῐ́αιν toîn philologíain	ταῖς φῐλολογῐ́αις taîs philologíais
Accusative	τὴν φῐλολογῐ́ᾱν tḕn philologíān	τὼ φῐλολογῐ́ᾱ tṑ philologíā	τᾱ̀ς φῐλολογῐ́ᾱς tā̀s philologíās
Vocative	φῐλολογῐ́ᾱ philologíā	φῐλολογῐ́ᾱ philologíā	φῐλολογῐ́αι philologíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: φιλολογία (filología)
• → Latin: philologia
  • → Italian: filologia
  • → Spanish: filología
  • → French: philologie
  • → English: philology
  • → German: Philologie
  • → Danish: filologi
  • → Swedish: filologi
  • → Russian: филология (filologija)

Greek

Noun

φιλολογία • (filología) f (plural φιλολογίες)

1. (linguistics) philology

Declension

Declension of φιλολογία

	singular	plural
nominative	φιλολογία •	φιλολογίες •
genitive	φιλολογίας •	φιλολογιών •
accusative	φιλολογία •	φιλολογίες •
vocative	φιλολογία •	φιλολογίες •

Related terms

• φιλόλογος m or f (filólogos, “philologist”)

Further reading

• φιλολογία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el