ἄσμενος

Unknown. An isolated participle, which has been interpreted as a sigmatic aorist ϝάδ-σμενος, from the same root of ἁνδάνω (handánō, “to please, delight”) and ἥδομαι (hḗdomai, “to be pleased”), but note that the form has no aspiration. Wackernagel proposed connection with νέομαι (néomai, “to return”), assuming an original meaning "safe". Not compelling. See also the discussion page.

ἄσμενος • (ásmenos) m (feminine ἀσμένη, neuter ἄσμενον); first/second declension

1. (always with a verb) glad, well-pleased, gratified

• > Greek: ασμένως (asménos) (inherited)

• “ἄσμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄσμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄσμενος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄσμενος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄσμενος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄσμενος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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