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αὐτοδίδακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοδίδακτος αὐτοδίδακτη αὐτοδίδακτον

Structure: αὐτοδιδακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. self-taught

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • διόπερ τοὺσ συμφέροντασ καὶ συνήθεισ τόπουσ μηδαμῶσ ἐκλείπειν, αὐτοδιδάκτου πρὸσ τὰ τοιαῦτα τῆσ φύσεωσ οὔσησ ἅπασι τοῖσ ζῴοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 10 6:2)
  • διὸ καὶ πάντα τὸν τόπον ὑπάρχειν μὴ μόνον θεοπρεπῆ κατὰ τὴν πρόσοψιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ τὸν ἦχον, ὡσ ἂν τῆσ αὐτοδιδάκτου γλυκυφωνίασ νικώσησ τὴν ἐναρμόνιον τῆσ τέχνησ μελῳδίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 69 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. self-taught

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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