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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κόσμος (kósmos) + the root of γίγνομαι (gígnomai) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koz.mo.ɡo.ní.aː/ → /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/ → /koz.mo.ɣoˈni.a/
Noun
κοσμογονίᾱ • (kosmogoníā) f (genitive κοσμογονίᾱς); first declension
- creation or origin of the world
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- κοσμογονία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κοσμογονία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “κοσμογονία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press