ἀμέριμν-ος

ἀμεριμν-έω,

A to be care-free, Iamb.VP5.21. (ἀμεριμνάω, only Moer. 79.)

ἀμεριμν-ία, ἡ,

A freedom from care, Plu.2.83oa, Secund.Sent.8b;

ἀ. τῆς δεσποτείας Hdn.2.4.6

.

2 as law-term, guarantee, release, IG14.956;

τινός PLips.59

; receipt, Just.Nov. 128.

II personified, Σεβαστῶν Ἀ., = Securitas Augustorum, CIG 2778 ([place name] Aphrodisias).

ἀμεριμν-ικός, ή, όν,

A = ἀμέριμνος 1, c. gen. obj.,

ἐμοῦ PFay. 130

(iii A. D.).

ἀμέριμν-ος, ον,

A free from care, unconcerned, Men.1083;

βίος AP9.359

(Posidipp. or Pl.Com.);

ἀ. ὕπνον εὕδεις Eranos 13.87

. Adv. - νως Vett. Val.355.6, Hdn.4.5.7, IG14.1839: [comp] Comp.

-ότερον, ἔχειν PLips. 105

(i A. D.).

II [voice] Pass., uncared for, S.Aj. 1207.

III οἰνοχοεῖ κρήνης ἐξ ἀμεριμνοτέρης, either causing less care, i.e. more easily attained, of the fount of inspiration, or possibly less celebrated, AP11.24 (Antip.).

IV ἀμέριμνον, τό, = ἀείζωον μέγα, Plin.HN 25.160.

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `care, anxiety' (h. Merc., Hes., Sapph., Emp., Pi., trag., Ar.; orig. Ionic?, Solmsen [s.below], v. Wilamowitz BerlAkSb. 1909, 810A. 1, Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 36);

Compounds: Compp., e.g. ἀ-μέριμνος `without care' (S., hell.) with ἀμεριμν-ία `carelessness' (Plu.) etc.

Derivatives: μεριμνάω, - ῆσαι `care for, care, be mindful' (S., Ar., X., D.) with μεριμν-ήματα, Dor. - άματα pl. `cares' (Pi., S.), - ητής m. `caring for sth.' (E.), - ητικός (Artem., sch.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin](X)

Etymology: The generally proposed and on itself obvious idea that μέριμνα is a backformation from μεριμνάω (cf. ἐρευνάω: ἔρευνα etc., see Solmsen Wortforsch. 39 f., 258), is confimed neither by the dates nor the spread of the attestations. Formally closest is μέδιμνος (s. v.); as basis seems to have served a noun *μερ-ί-μων or *μέρ-ι-μα; on the unclear phonology see Schwyzer 352 a. 283. Wrong analysis by Winter Lang. 26, 533. The primary verb to be supposed exists in Skt. smárati, Av. maraiti, paiti-šmaraiti, hi-šmar- `remember, remind'. -- Cognate formations perh. in μέρμερος, μέρμηρα, - ίζω; s. vv., with also further connections. Fur. 246 assumes Pre-Greek origin because of the suffix (- ιμν-).

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