ἰότατι

ἰότᾱτι, ἰότης

will: fem dat sg (doric)

ἰότᾱτι, ἰότης

will: fem dat sg (doric)

ἰότης [ῐ], ητος, ἡ,

A will, desire, [dialect] Ep.and Lyr. almost always in dat., θεῶν ἰότητι by the will of the gods, Il.19.9, Od.7.214,al., cf.Alc.13A; μητρὸς ἐμῆς ἰότητι at her will, Il.18.396;

κακῆς ἰ. γυναικός Od.11.384

; μνηστήρων ἰ. 18.234; ἀλλήλων ἰ. Il.5.874; ἀναιδήτῳ ἰ. with shameless will, A.R.4.360: acc. only in Il.15.41 δι' ἐμὴν ἰ.

II once in Trag., for the sake of,

ἰότατι γάμων A.Pr. 558

(lyr.).—Hsch. explains it by βουλήσει, αἰτία, ὀργῇ, χάριτι.

Grammatical information: only dat. ἰότητι (Hom., A. R.; ἰότατι Alc. ᾱ 309 L.P., A. Pr. 558 [lyr.]) except ἰότητα Ο 41, about `will, decision' ( θεῶν ἰότητι etc.). On the use in Homer Krarup Class. et. Med. 10, 13).

Origin: IE [Indo-European]X [probably] [16] * h₂eis- `wish'

Etymology: Uncertain. Two hypotheses: 1. to Skt. iṣ- `wish' (pres. iccháti), either from * iso-tāt- (Curtius 402; thus Schwyzer 528 n. 8) or * isto-tāt- from the ptc. *istós = Skt. iṣṭá- `wished' (Chantr. Form. 294); 2. to ἵεμαι `hasten, desire' from *Ϝιό-της or, with haplological hortening, *Ϝιοτό-της, from *Ϝίοτος `wishing' = Lat. ( in-)vītus (s. on ἵεμαι; Sommer Lautstud. 12f.); however, ἵεμαι has a long i. - Improbable Leumann Hom. Wörter 127ff. (with criticism on the preceding), who explains ἰότητι from a false division of δηιοτῆτι (- τος) `enmity' in δη ἰότητι (- τος); the Boeot. PN Θειο-Ϝίοτος, which speaks strongly for an original Ϝιότητι, would have been built on ep. θεῶν ἰότητι; against Leumann Fraenkel Gnomon 23, 373.

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