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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

  • τὸν δ’ ἄνευ λύρασ ὅμωσ ὑμνῳδεῖ θρῆνον Ἐρινύοσ αὐτοδίδακτοσ ἔσωθεν θυμόσ, οὐ τὸ πᾶν ἔχων ἐλπίδοσ φίλον θράσοσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 1 1:2)
  • ὅθεν καὶ ὁ ποιητήσ φησιν αὐτοδίδακτοσ δ’ εἰμί. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 7 33:3)
  • μακρὰ γεφυρώθη δὲ λύκοισ βυθόσ, ἔφθανε δ’ ἄνδρα νηχομένων θηρῶν αὐτοδίδακτοσ ἄρησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 252 1:1)
  • θνητοῖσ αὐτοδίδακτε διήκονε, μύστι φιλούντων ἡδίστη, δείπνων ὅπλον ἑτοιμότατον εἰήσ ἐκ Μάρκου γέρασ ἀγλαόν, ὃσ σέ, φίλοινε, ᾔνεσεν, ἀρχαίην σύμπλανον ἀνθέμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 248 1:1)
  • φιλοσοφία γάρ τισ αὐτοδίδακτοσ ἐγένετο περὶ αὐτόν, ἣν ἐν πολλοῖσ ἀπεδείξατο πράγμασιν, ὑπὲρ ὧν ὀλίγον ὕστερον ἐρῶ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 12 5:2)
  • αὐτοδίδακτοσ δ’ εἰμί, θεὸσ δέ μοι ἐν φρεσὶν οἴμασ παντοίασ ἐνέφυσεν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 56:4)

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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