τημελέω
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Without a certain explanation. The semantic and formal similarity with μέλω (mélō, “to care for”) gave rise to several unsuccesful attempts to connect this verb to etymologically. Pisani suggested that τημέλεια (tēméleia) arose from *τηλε-μέλεια (*tēle-méleia) by syllabic dissimilation and originally meaning "to care from afar"; however, this is semantically unconvincing.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛː.me.lé.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /te̝.meˈle.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ti.meˈle.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ti.meˈle.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ti.meˈle.o/
Verb
[edit]τημελέω • (tēmeléō)
- to take care of, look after
- Synonyms: ἐπῐμελέομαι (epimeléomai), κομῐ́ζω (komízō)
Conjugation
[edit] Present: τημελέω, τημελέομαι (Uncontracted)
Derived terms
[edit]- ἀτημέλητος (atēmélētos)
- τημέλειᾱ (tēméleiā)
- τημελής (tēmelḗs)
- τημελητής (tēmelētḗs)
Further reading
[edit]- “τημελέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τημελέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN