ἀτιμία

Ancient Greek

From ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ τῑμή (tīmḗ, “honor”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ • (ătīmĭ́ā) f (genitive ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

dishonor, disgrace
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.142
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 4.33
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.3
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.11
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.231
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.71
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.158
- 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 72
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Hipparchus 229C
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 796
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 309A
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 205:
  ὕβρεις καὶ ἀτιμίας
  húbreis kaì atimías
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1. at Athens, atimy, the loss of civil rights, infamy
  - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 395
  - 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 10.14
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 7.17
(of things) ragged, sorry
- 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 847
- 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, The Archilochuses 8

First declension of ἡ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ hē ătīmĭ́ā	τὼ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ tṑ ătīmĭ́ā	αἱ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αι hai ătīmĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱς tês ătīmĭ́ās	τοῖν ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αιν toîn ătīmĭ́ain	τῶν ᾰ̓τῑμῐῶν tôn ătīmĭôn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾳ tēî ătīmĭ́āi	τοῖν ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αιν toîn ătīmĭ́ain	ταῖς ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αις taîs ătīmĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱν tḕn ătīmĭ́ān	τὼ ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ tṑ ătīmĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ătīmĭ́ās
Vocative	ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ ătīmĭ́ā	ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́ᾱ ătīmĭ́ā	ᾰ̓τῑμῐ́αι ătīmĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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“ἀτιμία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀτιμία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀτιμία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
“ἀτιμία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G819 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- attainder idem, page 50.
- civil idem, page 133.
- contempt idem, page 167.
- degradation idem, page 206.
- discredit idem, page 231.
- disdain idem, page 232.
- disfranchisement idem, page 233.
- disgrace idem, page 233.
- dishonour idem, page 234.
- disrepute idem, page 239.
- disrespect idem, page 239.
- humiliation idem, page 410.
- ignominy idem, page 414.
- infamy idem, page 437.
- obloquy idem, page 566.
- scandal idem, page 737.
- shame idem, page 761.
- slight idem, page 784.
- slur idem, page 786.
- stain idem, page 809.
- status idem, page 813.
- stigma idem, page 817.
- tarnished idem, page 856.