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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

  • κῶμα παρείπετο, ἀπόσιτοσ, ἄθυμοσ, ἄγρυπνοσ, ὀργαί, δυσφορίαι, τὰ περὶ τὴν γνώμην μελαγχολικά. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 297)
  • δοκῶ μὲν οὖν σφε μηδὲ προσβαλεῖν πύλαισ οὐχ ὡσ ἄθυμοσ οὐδὲ λήματοσ κάκῇ, ἀλλ’ οἶδεν ὥσ σφε χρὴ τελευτῆσαι μάχῃ, εἰ καρπὸσ ἔσται θεσφάτοισι Λοξίου· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 3 3:1)
  • ὡσ ἄθυμοσ εἰσελήλυθασ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 3:11)
  • ἴτω δὴ πρόρρησισ τοιάδε τισ ἄθυμοσ τοῖσ οὕτω τὴν διάνοιαν διεφθαρμένοισ, καὶ λέγωμεν πρᾴωσ, σβέσαντεσ τὸν θυμόν, ὡσ ἑνὶ διαλεγόμενοι τῶν τοιούτων· (Plato, Laws, book 10 22:3)
  • καὶ θυμοειδήσ, ἡ δ’ ἄθυμόσ ἐστι; (Plato, Republic, book 5 147:3)

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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