θελημάτιον

θελ-ημάτιον, τό, Dim. of θέλημα, ἔσχατον θ. last

A will and testament, PLond.1.77.12 (vi A.D.).

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `want'.

Other forms: with aphairesis θέλω (Aeol. Ion. Hell.; in Hom. only ο 317; see Debrunner Festschrift Zucker 87ff.), aor. ( ἐ)θελῆσαι, fut. ( ἐ)θελήσω (Il.), perf. ἠθέληκα (X.), τεθέληκα (hell.)

Compounds: As 1. member in ἐθελο-κακέω `do wrong deliberately, play the coward deliberately' (Hdt.) with ἐθελοκάκησις (Plb.), cf. μνησι-κακέω a. o.; ἐθελό-δουλος `voluntary slave' with - δουλεία (Pl.), ἐθέλ-εχθρος (Crat.) etc. EN Έθελο-κράτης a. o. (inscr.).

Derivatives: ( ἐ)θελημός `voluntary' (Hes.), ( ἐ)θελήμων `id.' (Pl.) with ἐθελημοσύναι pl. (PMag. Par.); θέλημα `will' (Antipho Soph.; θελήμη Theognost.) with θελημάτιον; - τικός, θέλησις, - ητής, - ητός (LXX usw.). - From ἐθελοντ-: ἐθελοντής `volunteer' (Hdt.) with - τήν adv. (Hdt.); rare θελοντής (Hdt. v. l.); Hom. has ἐθελοντῆρας (β 292); ἐθελούσιος `voluntary' (X., after ἑκούσιος). Adv. ἐθελοντί, - τηδόν `voluntarily' (Th.), ἐθελόντως (sch.). - Isolated θέλεος ἀθέλεος `volens nolens' (A. Supp. 862 [lyr.]), poet. formation after the adj. in - εος.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [489] * h₁gʷʰel- `will'

Etymology: ( ἐ)θέλω is a primary thematic pres. ind, which has - η- in all non-present forms. To OCS želéjǫ, -ěti `wish, desire', from * h₁gʷʰel-. (Not to φαλίζει θέλει H.; before e one expects a dental).

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