ἀτιμία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́η (atīmíē) — Ionic

Etymology

From ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ τῑμή (tīmḗ, “honor”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.tiː.mí.aː/ → /a.tiˈmi.a/ → /a.tiˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.tiː.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.tiˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.tiˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.tiˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.tiˈmi.a/

Noun

ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ • (atīmíā) f (genitive ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. dishonor, disgrace
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.142
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 4.33
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.3
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.11
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.231
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.71
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.158
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 72
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Hipparchus 229C
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 796
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 309A
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 205:

     ὕβρεις καὶ ἀτιμίας

     húbreis kaì atimías

   1. at Athens, atimy, the loss of civil rights, infamy
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 395
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 10.14
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 7.17
2. (of things) ragged, sorry
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 847
   • 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, The Archilochuses 8

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ hē atīmíā	τὼ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ tṑ atīmíā	αἱ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αι hai atīmíai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱς tês atīmíās	τοῖν ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αιν toîn atīmíain	τῶν ᾰ̓τῑμῐῶν tôn atīmiôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾳ têi atīmíāi	τοῖν ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αιν toîn atīmíain	ταῖς ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αις taîs atīmíais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱν tḕn atīmíān	τὼ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ tṑ atīmíā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s atīmíās
Vocative	ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ atīmíā	ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ atīmíā	ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αι atīmíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: ατιμία (atimía)
• → English: atimy (learned)
• → French: atimie (learned)

References

• “ἀτιμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀτιμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀτιμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀτιμία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀτιμία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G819 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • attainder idem, page 50.
  • civil idem, page 133.
  • contempt idem, page 167.
  • degradation idem, page 206.
  • discredit idem, page 231.
  • disdain idem, page 232.
  • disfranchisement idem, page 233.
  • disgrace idem, page 233.
  • dishonour idem, page 234.
  • disrepute idem, page 239.
  • disrespect idem, page 239.
  • humiliation idem, page 410.
  • ignominy idem, page 414.
  • infamy idem, page 437.
  • obloquy idem, page 566.
  • scandal idem, page 737.
  • shame idem, page 761.
  • slight idem, page 784.
  • slur idem, page 786.
  • stain idem, page 809.
  • status idem, page 813.
  • stigma idem, page 817.
  • tarnished idem, page 856.