αἴτιος

From *αἶτος (*aîtos, “share”) +‎ -ιος (-ios), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éy-ti-s, from *h₂ey- (“to give”). Cognates include Tocharian B ai- (“to give, take”), Oscan aetis (“part (of a possession)”) and perhaps Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬀 (aēta) (though the latter is disputed by Beekes).

αἴτῐος • (aítios) m (feminine αἰτῐ́ᾱ, neuter αἴτῐον); first/second declension

1. causing, being the author of, responsible for
2. to blame, blameworthy, guilty, reprehensible, culpable

• αἰτέω (aitéō)

αἴτῐος • (aítios) m (genitive αἰτίου); second declension

1. defendant, the accused, culprit

• “αἴτιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αἴτιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “αἴτιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• αἴτιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• αἴτιος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• αἴτιος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “αἴτιος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G159 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accountable idem, page 7.
  • author idem, page 53.
  • cause idem, page 118.
  • culprit idem, page 188.
  • guilty idem, page 379.
  • inculpated idem, page 431.
  • instrumental idem, page 447.
  • perpetrator idem, page 607.
  • productive idem, page 645.
  • responsible idem, page 704.