Ontology Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Etymology == {{See also|Classical compound}} The [[Compound (linguistics)|compound]] word ''ontology'' ('study of being') combines :''[[wikt:onto-|onto]]-'' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{Lang-gr|ὄν|label=none|translit=on}};<!--[sic] (neuter), not ὤν (masculine)-->{{NoteTag|ὄν is the [[Present tense|present-tense]] [[participle]] of the [[verb]] [[wikt:εἰμί|εἰμί]] (''eimí'', 'to be' or 'I am').}} {{Abbr|[[Genitive case|{{sc|GEN}}]].|Genitive case}} {{Lang-gr|ὄντος|label=none|translit=ontos|lit=being' or 'that which is}}) and :''[[wikt:-logia|-logia]]'' ({{Lang-gr|{{wikt-lang|en|-λογία}}|lit=logical discourse|label=none}}).<ref name="OnlineEtDict">{{cite dictionary |title = ontology |url = https://www.etymonline.com/word/ontology |dictionary = [[Online Etymology Dictionary]]}}</ref><ref name="LSJ">{{LSJ|ei)mi/1|εἰμί|ref}}.</ref> While the [[etymology]] is Greek, the oldest extant records of the word itself are of the [[Neo-Latin]] form {{Lang-la|ontologia|label=none}}, which appeared :in 1606 in the [https://www.google.it/books/edition/Ogdoas_Scholastica_continens_diagraphen/EIvc1kak6xEC ''Ogdoas Scholastica''] by [[Jacob Lorhard]] (''Lorhardus''), and :in 1613 in the ''Lexicon philosophicum'' by [[Rudolph Goclenius|Rudolf Göckel]] (''Goclenius''). The first occurrence in English of ''ontology'', as recorded by the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/ontology?q=ontology |title=ontology|website=[[Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2008}}</ref> came in 1664 through ''Archelogia philosophica nova...'' by Gideon Harvey.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archelogia philosophica nova, or, New principles of philosophy containing philosophy in general, metaphysicks or ontology, dynamilogy or a discourse of power, religio philosophi or natural theology, physicks or natural philosophy / by Gideon Harvey ... |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A43008.0001.001 |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=quod.lib.umich.edu}}</ref> The word was first used, in its Latin form, by philosophers, and based on the Latin roots (and in turn on the Greek ones). Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page