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ἄθυμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθυμος

Structure: ἀθυμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without heart, fainthearted, no heart
  2. without passion

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓θυμος ά̓θυμον
Genitive ἀθύμου ἀθύμου
Dative ἀθύμῳ ἀθύμῳ
Accusative ά̓θυμον ά̓θυμον
Vocative ά̓θυμε ά̓θυμον
DualN/A/V ἀθύμω ἀθύμω
G/D ἀθύμοιν ἀθύμοιν
PluralNominative ά̓θυμοι ά̓θυμα
Genitive ἀθύμων ἀθύμων
Dative ἀθύμοις ἀθύμοις
Accusative ἀθύμους ά̓θυμα
Vocative ά̓θυμοι ά̓θυμα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓θυμος ἀθύμου ἀθυμώτερος ἀθυμωτέρου ἀθυμώτατος ἀθυμωτάτου
Adverb ἀθύμως ἀθυμώτερον ἀθυμώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἴμ’ ὡσ ἀθυμῶ· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 4:6)
  • ἀθυμῶ δ’, εἰ φανήσομαι τάχα κακὸν μέγ’ ἐκπράξασ’ ἀπ’ ἐλπίδοσ καλῆσ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode4)
  • δεινῶσ ἀθυμῶ μὴ βλέπων ὁ μάντισ ᾖ· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:18)
  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ ἀθυμῶ, ὅτι μοι δοκεῖ τὰσ τῶν θεῶν εὐεργεσίασ οὐδ’ ἂν εἷσ ποτε ἀνθρώπων ἀξίαισ χάρισιν ἀμείβεσθαι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 3 16:2)
  • καί τοι ταύτην τὴν ἀτιμίην προστίθημι ἐόντι κακῷ καὶ ἀθύμῳ, μήτε συστρατεύεσθαι ἔμοιγε ἐπὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα αὐτοῦ τε μένειν ἅμα τῇσι γυναιξί· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 11 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. without heart

  2. without passion

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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