Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðysθymía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðysθymía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðisθimía/

Noun

δυσθῡμίᾱ • ‎(dusthūmíā) f ‎(genitive δυσθυμίας); first declension

1. despondency, despair
   • Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 12
   • Sophocles, Fragments 584
   • Euripides, The Suppliants 696
   • Euripides, Medea 691
   • Aristotle, Problems 30.1.26

Inflection

Descendants

• English: dysthymia

References

• δυσθυμία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δυσθυμία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «δυσθυμία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δυσθυμία» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• «δυσθυμία» 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dejection idem, page 207.
  • depression idem, page 213.
  • despair idem, page 216.
  • despondency idem, page 217.
  • discouragement idem, page 231.
  • gloom idem, page 362.
  • heaviness idem, page 393.
  • hopelessness idem, page 406.
  • joylessness idem, page 465.
  • low spirits idem, page 502.
  • melancholy idem, page 524.
  • misery idem, page 534.
  • mournfulness idem, page 544.
  • oppression idem, page 577.
  • sadness idem, page 730.
  • sorrowfulness idem, page 795.
  • tearfulness idem, page 858.
  • unhappiness idem, page 920.
  • woefulness idem, page 986.
  • wretchedness idem, page 993.

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek δῠσθῡμῐ́ᾱ ‎(dusthūmíā, “despondency”, “despair”), from δῠσ- ‎(dus-, “bad”, “hard”, “unfortunate”) + θῡμός ‎(thūmós, “temper”, “disposition”).

Noun

δυσθυμία • ‎(dysthymía) f ‎(plural δυσθυμίες)

1. dysthymia (tendency to be depressed)

Declension

See also

• δύσθυμος ‎(dýsthymos, “moody”)