COMPOUND: ἀτάσθαλος, -ον
CATEGORIZATION: A [N+V+Suf]
MEANING: ‘reckless, presumptuous, wicked (of men)’; ‘of men’s acts, words’
ETYMOLOGY: unknown. Best proposal ἄτας (ἄτη) ‘reckless guilt, bane, ruin’ + verbal root θαλ- (θάλλω) ‘grow, bloom’ + adj. suf. -ος, -ον
OCCURRENCE: Il. XI, 695; XIII, 634; XXII, 418; Od. III, 207; IV, 693; VII, 60; VIII, 166; XVI, 86, 93; XVII, 588; XVIII, 139, 143; XX, 170, 370; XXII, 47, 314; XXIV, 282, 352
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. n. sg., dat. m. sg., acc. m. sg., acc. n. sg., nom. m. pl., dat. m. pl., acc. n. pl.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: subordinative (argument-V) – tatpuruṣa (V-governing)
NOTES: Best etymological proposal by Schwyzer, who starts from a univerbized participle ἀτασθάλλων (actually attested in the Odyssey but possibly deadjectival from ἀτάσθαλος) < * ἀτας θάλλω;