αἰτίαι (aitiai)

αἰτίαι is an Ancient Greek form of αἰτία, meaning “cause, blame, charge”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.23.6: … γιγνομένους καὶ φόβον παρέχοντας τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀναγκάσαι ἐς τὸ πολεμεῖν· αἱ δ’ ἐς τὸ φανερὸν λεγόμεναι αἰτίαι αἵδ’ ἦσαν ἑκατέρων, ἀφ’ ὧν λύσαντες τὰς σπονδὰς ἐς τὸν πόλεμον κατέστησαν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.6.87: … καὶ Περὶ φύσεως καὶ Περὶ εἰδώλων. Πρὸς Δημόκριτον. Περὶ τῶν ἐν οὐρανῷ α′. Περὶ τῶν ἐν ᾅδου. Περὶ βίων α′ β′. Αἰτίαι περὶ νόσων α′. Περὶ τἀγαθοῦ α′. Πρὸς τὰ Ζήνωνος α′. Πρὸς τὰ Μήτρωνος α′. Γραμματικὰ δὲ Περὶ τῆς Ὁμήρου καὶ Ἡσ …

Plutarch, Camillus 2.3: αἴτιαι δʼ ἦσαν αἱ συνεχεῖς στρατεῖαι μεγάλων ἀναλωμάτων δεόμεναι, καὶ μάλιστα κατήπειγεν ἡ Οὐηΐων πολιορκία, τούτους …

All forms of αἰτία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.