# διατίθημι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From δῐᾰ- (dia-) +‎ τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “put, place”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /di.a.tí.tʰɛː.mi/ → /ði.aˈti.θi.mi/ → /ði.aˈti.θi.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /di.a.tí.tʰɛː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /di.aˈti.tʰe̝.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ði.aˈti.θi.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ði.aˈti.θi.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ði.aˈti.θi.mi/

### Verb

δῐᾰτῐ́θημῐ • (diatíthēmi)
* (active voice) place separately, arrange each in their own places, distribute
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.132
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.39
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.27
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 8.4.3
** (with an adverb) to manage well or ill
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.15
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 19.88
*** (of persons) to handle or treat well or ill
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.155
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.57
**** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 18.23
*** to dispose one in such a manner
**** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 5.80
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.168
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 20.22
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.2.3
**** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 151C
**** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 8.14
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 5.2.4
**** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 207C
** to set forth, recite
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 162D
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 658D
*** to describe
**** 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 1.1.16
* (middle voice) to arrange as one likes, to dispose of
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.2.7
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 12.140
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 2.16
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, How to Write History 51, (Compare On Salaried Posts in Great Houses 25)
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 20.6.5
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 16.1.2
** to dispose of one's property, devise it by will
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 922C
*** 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 3.68
*** 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 7.1
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 19.39
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 2.9.15
*** New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 9:16
** to set out for sale, dispose of merchandise
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.1.194
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.3.10
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians 2.11
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 849D
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.6.13
** to arrange or settle mutually, make a covenant
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 439
*** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 3:25
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6.23
** to compose, make
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 834A
** to set forth, recite
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 3.108.2
*** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Hermotimus 1

#### Derived terms

* δῐᾰθήκη (diathḗkē)

### References

* “διατίθημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “διατίθημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* διατίθημι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* διατίθημι in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* LSJ 8th edition