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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Sommer connected the word with ζῆλος (zêlos, “fervour, zeal”), ζητέω (zētéō, “to inquire, search, investigate”) and δίζημαι (dízēmai, “to seek out, look for”). This suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-; for the semantics "zeal", "fine" compare Old English anda (“envy, jealousy”) with Old High German antōn (“to punish”). Connection with Sanskrit दीन (dīna, “poor, miserable, wretched”) and δειλός (deilós, “cowardly”) is quite uncertain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zdɛː.mí.aː/ → /ziˈmi.a/ → /ziˈmi.a/
Noun
ζημῐ́ᾱ • (zēmíā) f (genitive ζημῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- loss, damage
- Antonym: κέρδος (kérdos)
- penalty in money, fine
- Synonyms: θωή (thōḗ), ποινή (poinḗ)
- (in general) penalty
- expense, expenditure
- dead loss, bad bargain
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: zāmia (through Doric)
Further reading
- “ζημία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζημία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ζημία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN