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αἶσχος

aischos

shame, ugliness

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What it meant

1. αἶσχος · aischos — Beekes

αἶσχος [n.] ‘shame, ugliness’, plur. ‘disgraceful deeds’ (1). eVAR Comp. αἰσχίων, super]. αἴσχιστος. *DER αἰσχρός ‘dishonoring, ugly’, denominative αἰσχύνω ‘to dishonor’, med. ‘to be ashamed’ (Il.), back-formation αἰσχύνη ‘shame’ (IA). PN Αἰσχύλος, perhaps an enlargement of an old u-stem. Further derivatives: 1. from αἰσχρός: αἰσχρότης ‘ugliness’ (Pl. Gorg. 525a, Ep. Eph. 5, 4), αἰσχροσύνη (Tz.). 2. from … — [Beekes, s.v. αἶσχος, p. 91]

2. αἶσχος · aischos — Chantraine

αἶσχος, τοὺς : n. «honte, ignominie », employé à côté de λώδη (Hom. 4. 13,622) mais le plus souvent au pluriel chez Hom. ; le terme est poétique, quoique employé en prose attique pour indiquer la difformité, la laideur repoussante, cf. PI. Banquet 201 a où le mot est opposé à κάλλος. Le thème en 5 xfoyoc ἃ fourni le second terme de eux composés en -αἰσχῆς : ἀναισχήῆς AB 207 et ἐπαισχῆς Nic. Dam., termes d'aspect … — [Chantraine, s.v. αἶσχος, p. 54]

3. αἶσχος · aischos — Frisk

αἶσχος n. ‘Schande’, pl. ‘Schandreden, -taten’; “Häßlichkeit’ (seit Il... Daneben die primären Komparativ- und Superlativbildungen αἰσχίων, αἴσχιστος und, mit dem Wechsel zwischen ro- und u-Stamm, einerseits αἰσχρός ‘schändlich, häßlich’, anderseits das denominative αἰσχύνω “beschimpfen, häßlich machen’ Med. ‘sich schämen’ (seit Il.) mit dem retrograden αἰσχύνη ‘Schande, Scham’ (ion. att.). Der u-Stamm noch in … — [Frisk, s.v. αἶσχος, p. 76]

4. αἶσχος · aischos — LSJ

shame, disgrace

shame, disgrace, Hom. (freq. in pl., as Il. 3.242), Hes. Op. 211, Sol. 3, A. Supp. 1008, etc.

2 disgraceful deeds

in pl., disgraceful deeds, Od. 1.229.

II ugliness, deformity

ugliness, deformity, of mind or body, Pl. Smp. 201a, X. Cyr. 2.2.29, etc. ; αἶ. περὶ τὴν κάτηξιν Hp. Art. 14; αἶ. ὀνόματος Arist. Rh. 1405b8.

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Where it came from

  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. αἶσχος (scan pp. 91-92; entry #250).
  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. αἶσχος (scan p. 54; entry #253).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. αἶσχος (scan pp. 76-77; entry #240).

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