English
Timonize
From Timon + -ize, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c.
Formed from Timon + -ize
Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- ‘to perceive’
Ancient Greek τῑ́ω ‘to pay honour to a person’
Ancient Greek τῑμή ‘honor’
Ancient Greek Τῑ́μων
English Timon
The story
From Timon + -ize, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used intransitively by William Darrell in his book The Gentleman Instructed (1713), and transitively by Herman Melville in his novel Pierre (1852).
Today it means
verb To behave as a misanthrope.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Timonize