ῥαθυμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῥᾴθῡμος (rhā́ithūmos, “lighthearted”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

ῥᾴθῡμῐ́ᾱ • (rhā́ithūmíā) f (genitive ῥᾴθῡμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. lightheartedness, cheerfulness
2. relaxation
3. thoughtlessness, carelessness

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱ hē rhāithūmíā	τὼ ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhāithūmíā	αἱ ῥᾳθῡ́μῐαι hai rhāithū́miai
Genitive	τῆς ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱς tês rhāithūmíās	τοῖν ῥᾳθῡμῐ́αιν toîn rhāithūmíain	τῶν ῥᾳθῡμῐῶν tôn rhāithūmiôn
Dative	τῇ ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾳ têi rhāithūmíāi	τοῖν ῥᾳθῡμῐ́αιν toîn rhāithūmíain	ταῖς ῥᾳθῡμῐ́αις taîs rhāithūmíais
Accusative	τὴν ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱν tḕn rhāithūmíān	τὼ ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱ tṑ rhāithūmíā	τᾱ̀ς ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s rhāithūmíās
Vocative	ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱ rhāithūmíā	ῥᾳθῡμῐ́ᾱ rhāithūmíā	ῥᾳθῡ́μῐαι rhāithū́miai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: rhathymia

References

• “ῥαθυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥαθυμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • carelessness idem, page 114.