ἀθυμία
See also: αθυμία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀθῡμῐ́η (athūmíē) – Ionic
Etymology
ἀ- (a-, “not”) + θῡμός (thūmós, “spirit”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.tʰyː.mí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.tʰyˈmi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.θyˈmi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.θyˈmi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.θiˈmi.a/
Noun
ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ • (athūmíā) f (genitive ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- lack of heart, faintheartedness, despondency
- Herodotus, Histories 1.37
- Sophocles, Antigone 237
- Euripides, Herakles 551
- Plato, Laws 731A
- Aeschines, Collected Works 79.12
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.1.8
- Lysias, Collected Works 120.23
- Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.24
- Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.12.6
- Aristotle, Problems 30.1
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ hē athūmíā | τὼ ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ tṑ athūmíā | αἱ ἀθῡμῐ́αι hai athūmíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱς tês athūmíās | τοῖν ἀθῡμῐ́αιν toîn athūmíain | τῶν ἀθῡμῐῶν tôn athūmiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀθῡμῐ́ᾳ têi athūmíāi | τοῖν ἀθῡμῐ́αιν toîn athūmíain | ταῖς ἀθῡμῐ́αις taîs athūmíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱν tḕn athūmíān | τὼ ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ tṑ athūmíā | τᾱ̀ς ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s athūmíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ athūmíā | ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ athūmíā | ἀθῡμῐ́αι athūmíai | ||||||||||
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References
- “ἀθυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀθυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀθυμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀθυμία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- depression idem, page 213.
- despair idem, page 216.
- despondency idem, page 217.
- discouragement idem, page 231.
- gloom idem, page 362.
- heaviness idem, page 393.
- hopelessness idem, page 406.
- joylessness idem, page 465.
- low spirits idem, page 502.
- melancholy idem, page 524.
- misery idem, page 534.
- mournfulness idem, page 544.
- oppression idem, page 577.
- sadness idem, page 730.
- sorrowfulness idem, page 795.
- tearfulness idem, page 859.
- unhappiness idem, page 920.
- woefulness idem, page 986.
- wretchedness idem, page 993.