ἀθυμία

See also: αθυμία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἀθῡμῐ́η (athūmíē) — Ionic

Etymology

ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ θῡμός (thūmós, “spirit”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.tʰyː.mí.aː/ → /a.θyˈmi.a/ → /a.θiˈmi.a/

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

Noun

ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ • (athūmíā) f (genitive ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. lack of heart, faintheartedness, despondency
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.37
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 237
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 551
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 731A
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 79.12
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.1.8
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 120.23
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.24
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.12.6
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Problems 30.1

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἀθῡμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], 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.