But the Greek word Aristotle used was "aition," which is best translated as a "because.".    From Wordnik.com.  [April 18th, 2008] Reference

Pneuma, in turn, is the ˜sustaining cause™ (causa continens, synektikon aition) of all existing bodies and guides the growth and development of animate bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stoicism] Reference

From the fame, thanking thcm for their ready and ipeedy exe - aition of the above order, p. 42. 55.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum quos Collegio corporis Christi et B. Mariæ Virginis in Academia Cantabrigiensi legavit reverendissimus in Christo pater Matthæus Parker, archiepiscopus cantuariensis] Reference

The situation in which we bow arc proves the correctness, as well as the importance, of the po - aition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials] Reference

(Metaph.i. 2) says Theos gar dokei to aition pasin einai kai arche tis, but does this refer only to form?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

'Anaximenes de kai' Anaxago ras kai Demokritos to platos aition einai phasi tou menein auten; ou gar temnein all 'epipomatizein (covers like a lid) ton a& 153; ra ton katothen, hoper phainetai ta platos echonta ton somaton poiein.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

Glossary of Aristotelian Terminology account: logos art: technê artisan: technitês cause: aitia, aition difficulty: aporia end: telos essence: to ti ên einai form: eidos generation: genesis goal: telos knowledge: epistêmê necessity: anankê principle: archê substance: ousia why: dia ti, dioti wisdom: sophia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle on Causality] Reference

232; s, e& 129; n hos aition ton patera lambanes, ouk anarchos, "the Son, if you understand the Father as cause, is not without beginning." arche gar huiou pater hos aitios.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

"As an aition for the foundation of the Olympics from the standpoint of the chariot-race, the myth of the death of Oinomaos would at first seem to be at odds with the myth of the death of Pelops, an aition from the standpoint of the foot-race.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Ancient / Classical History] Reference

81oas« Mr. H., the large gold medal to, for an historical compa - aition, xUr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce] Reference

Glossary of Aristotelian terms action: poiein actuality: energeia or entelecheia art, craft: technê capacity: dunamis cause: aitia or aition change: kinêsis or metabolê to effect change or motion: kinein to undergo change or motion: kineisthai qualitative change: alloiôsis quantitative changes ” growth: auxêsis; shrinking: phthisis locomotion: phora to come to be: gignesthai coming to be: genesis force: bia forced: biâi form: eidos or morphê in so far as: hêi genus, kind: genos goal: telos kind, species: eidos matter: hulê magnitude: megethos motion: kinêsis nature: phusis natural: phusikos, phusei according to nature: kata phusin contrary to nature: para phusin passion: paschein to perish: phtheirein perishing: phthora place: pou (as one of the categories, literally: where) or topos potentiality: dunamis power: dunamis quality: poion quantity: poson substance: ousia time: pote (as one of the categories, literally: when) or chronos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle's Natural Philosophy] Reference

“denial of a proposition”) contrary: enantion definition: horos, horismos demonstration: apodeixis denial (of a proposition): apophasis dialectic: dialektikê differentia: diaphora; specific difference, eidopoios diaphora distinctive: idios, idion end: telos essence: to ti ên einai, to ti esti essential: en tôi ti esti, en tôi ti ên einai (of predications); kath™ hauto (of attributes) exist: einai explanation: aition, aitia final cause: hou heneka (literally, “what something is for”) form: eidos, morphê formula: logos function: ergon genus: genos homonymous: homônumon immediate: amesos impossible: adunaton in respect of itself: kath™ hauto individual: atomon, tode ti induction: epagôgê infinite: apeiron kind: genos, eidos knowledge: epistêmê matter: hulê movement: kinêsis nature: phusis negation (of a term): apophasis particular: en merei, epi meros (of a proposition); kath'hekaston (of individuals) peculiar: idios, idion per se: kath™ hauto perception: aisthêsis perplexit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle's Metaphysics] Reference