ἐνθυμία

See also: ενθύμια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐνθῡ́μιος (enthū́mios, “taken to heart”) from ἐν (en, “in”) + θῡμός (thūmós, “soul”).

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

ἐνθῡμίᾱ • (enthūmíā) f (genitive ἐνθῡμίᾱς); first declension

1. scruple, misgiving
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.16
   • c. 245 CE – c. 325 CE, Iamblichus Chalcidensis, On the Pythagorean Way of Life 20

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱ hē enthūmĭ́ā	τὼ ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱ tṑ enthūmĭ́ā	αἱ ἐνθῡμῐ́αι hai enthūmĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱς tês enthūmĭ́ās	τοῖν ἐνθῡμῐ́αιν toîn enthūmĭ́ain	τῶν ἐνθῡμῐῶν tôn enthūmĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾳ têi enthūmĭ́āi	τοῖν ἐνθῡμῐ́αιν toîn enthūmĭ́ain	ταῖς ἐνθῡμῐ́αις taîs enthūmĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱν tḕn enthūmĭ́ān	τὼ ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱ tṑ enthūmĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s enthūmĭ́ās
Vocative	ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱ enthūmĭ́ā	ἐνθῡμῐ́ᾱ enthūmĭ́ā	ἐνθῡμῐ́αι enthūmĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἐνθυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐνθυμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐνθυμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐνθυμία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• ἐνθυμία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften