Noun: aetiology
| Singular | aetiology |
| Plural | aetiologies |
Sample Sentences
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I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams [translating Traumätiologie]. [1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.c:]
Nouns inflected like aetiology
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-der.
3. Ancient Greek αἰτῐ́ᾱ (aitĭ́ā)
4. Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
5. Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
6. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
7. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
9. Proto-Hellenic *-íā
10. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
11. Ancient Greek -λογίᾱ (-logíā)
12. Ancient Greek αἰτῐολογῐ́ᾱ (aitĭologĭ́ā)der.
13. Latin aetiologiabor.
14. English aetiology
15. Borrowed from Latin aetiologia. By surface analysis, aetio- + -logy. Doublet of aetiologia.
Verbs referencing "aetiology"
Finnish Nouns
etiologia.