The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδυσθυμία“despondency, despair; ill-temper”
- English todaydysthymia
From dys- + -thymia. From Ancient Greek δυσθυμία (dusthumía, “despondency, despair; ill-temper”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + θυμός (thumós, “soul, spirit”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.