αἰσχύν-η (aischune)

Where it lives

Abdias 1 · 22.73/10k
Jude 1 · 22.47/10k
Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Baruch 2 · 7.91/10k
Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
Philippians 1 · 6.26/10k
Siracides 11 · 5.96/10k
Odae 2 · 4.92/10k
Daniel (LXX) 5 · 4.76/10k
Isaias 12 · 4.57/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k

Densest 12 of 75 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

αἰσχύν-η · aischyn-ē — LSJ

shame, dishonour

shame, dishonour, ἐς αἰσχύνην φέρει Hdt. 1.10, cf. 3.133; αἰσχύνην φέρει, ἔχει, S. Tr. 66, E. Andr. 244, etc.; αἰ. περιίσταταί με, συμβαίνει μοι, D. 3.8, 18.85; αἰσχύνῃ πίπτειν S. Tr. 597; περιπίπτειν X. HG 7.3.9; αἰσχύνην περιάπτειν τῇ πόλει Pl. Ap. 35a; αἰ. προσβάλλειν τινί Id. Lg. 878c; ἐν αἰ. ποιεῖν τὴν πόλιν D. 18.136; ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων αἰ. 1.27.

2 dishonouring, dishonour done

αἰ. γυναικῶν dishonouring of women, Isoc. 4.114 (pl.), 12.259 (pl.); γράφεσθαί τινα γένους αἰσχύνης for dishonour done to his race, Pl. Lg. 919e.

3

concrete, of a person, αἰ. φίλοις, πάτρᾳ, Thgn. 1272, A. Pers. 774; ἄνθρωπος αἰ. τῆς πόλεως γεγονώς Aeschin. 3.241; of a decree, ib. 105.

II shame for

shame for an ill deed, personified in A. Th. 409; Αἰσχύνην οὐ νομίσασα θεόν AP 7.450 (Diosc.).

2 sense of shame, honour, ashamed of, for, a shameful thing

like αἰδώς, sense of shame, honour, πᾶσαν αἰ. ἀφείς S. Ph. 120; ἡ γὰρ αἰ. <πάρος> τοῦ ζῆν . . νομίζεται E. Heracl. 200; διʼ αἰσχύνης ἔχειν τι to be ashamed of, Id. IT 683; αἰσχύνην ἔχειν τινός for a thing, S. El. 616; αἰ. ἐπί τινι Pl. Smp. 178d; ὑπέρ τινος D. 4.10; joined with δέος, S. Aj. 1079; with ἔλεος and αἰδώς, Antipho 1.27 :—rare in pl., πτήσσουσαν αἰσχύνῃσιν S. Fr. 659.9; ἐν αἰσχύναις ἔχω I hold it a shameful thing, E. Supp. 164.

III

later = αἰδοῖον, Sch. Ar. Eq. 365; cf. τὴν τοῦ σώματος αἰ. Alcid.ap Arist. Rh. 1406a29.

In the wild

αἰσχύνη · aischynē Aeschylus, Persians 774
Αἰσχύνης · Aischynēs Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 407–410
αἰσχύνης · aischynēs Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 683
αἰσχύνη · aischynē Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1128b (DIORISIS sentence 1509)
αἰσχύνη · aischynē Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1128b (DIORISIS sentence 1510)
αἰσχύνη · aischynē Aristotle, Rhetoric 1

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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