αἰτιῶν (aition)

αἰτιῶν is an Ancient Greek form of αἴτιος, meaning “responsible, to blame; (noun) cause”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 156 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.23.6: … νίων τὴν ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ Πολίχναν τειχιζομένην ἑλόντες διεκόμισαν πάλιν αὐτοὺς ἐς τὴν ἐν τῇ νήσῳ πόλιν, πλὴν τῶν αἰτίων τῆς ἀποστάσεως· οὗτοι δὲ ἐς Δαφνοῦντα ἀπῆλθον. καὶ αὖθις Κλαζομεναὶ προσεχώρησαν Ἀθηναίοις.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.2.46: … α′ β′ γ′ δ′ ε′ ς′ ζ′ η′. Πρὸς τοὺς φυσικοὺς α′. Περὶ φυτικῶν ἱστοριῶν α′ β′ γ′ δ′ ε′ ς′ ζ′ η′ θ′ ι′. Φυτικῶν αἰτιῶν α′ β′ γ′ δ′ ε′ ς′ ζ′ η′ Περὶ χυλῶν α′ β′ γ′ δ′ ε′. Περὶ ψεύδους ἡδονῆς α′. Περὶ ψυχῆς θέσις μία. Περὶ τῶν ἀτέ …

Plutarch, Parallela minora 39: … ὐτῇ· ὁ δὲ μόνον τότε γενόμενος δίκαιος αὐτὸν ἐνέβαλεν. ἐδόκει δὲ μυκηθμὸν ἀναδιδόναι ἡ δάμαλις· ὡς ἐν δευτέρῳ Αἰτιῶν. ἐν Αἰγέστῃ τῇ πόλει τῆς Σικελίας ἐγένετό τις ὠμὸς τύραννος Αἰμίλιος Κενσωρῖνος. οὗτος τοὺς καινότερα βασανισ …

All forms of αἴτιος (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.