αἰτίη (aitie)

αἰτίη is an Ancient Greek form of αἰτία, meaning “cause, blame, charge”.

It can also be a form of αἴτιος, “responsible, to blame; (noun) cause”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 82 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 31·2: τὸ δὲ μέγιστον καὶ κάλλιστον ἔργον ἀνελεῖν μὴ δυνηθεὶς ὡς οὐ πραχθὲν αὐτοῖς, αἰτίῃ φαύλῃ καὶ ὑπονοίᾳ διαλυμαινόμενος ταῦτʼ ἔγραφεν οἱ μέν νυν ξύμμαχοι οἱ ἀποπεμπόμενοι ᾤχοντό τε ἀπιόντες καὶ ἐ …

Lucian of Samosata, De Syria dea 8: … ς τὰ μάλιστα μιλτώδεα, ἡ δὲ γῆ μιν αἱμώδεα τίθησιν· καὶ τοῦδε τοῦ πάθεος οὐ τὸ αἷμα, τὸ λέγουσιν, ἀλλʼ ἡ χώρη αἰτίη. ὁ μέν μοι Βύβλιος τοσάδε ἀπηγέετο· εἰ δὲ ἀτρεκέως ταῦτα ἔλεγεν, ἐμοὶ μὲν δοκέει κάρτα θείη καὶ τοῦ ἀνέμου ἡ …

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.