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αὐτοφυής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοφυής αὐτοφυές

Structure: αὐτοφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fu/omai

Sense

  1. self-grown, of home growth
  2. natural, artificial, rough as it came from the tree
  3. one's own nature

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative αὐτοφυής αὐτόφυες
Genitive αὐτοφυούς αὐτοφύους
Dative αὐτοφυεί αὐτοφύει
Accusative αὐτοφυή αὐτόφυες
Vocative αὐτοφυές αὐτόφυες
DualN/A/V αὐτοφυεί αὐτοφύει
G/D αὐτοφυοίν αὐτοφύοιν
PluralNominative αὐτοφυείς αὐτοφύη
Genitive αὐτοφυών αὐτοφύων
Dative αὐτοφυέσιν* αὐτοφύεσιν*
Accusative αὐτοφυείς αὐτοφύη
Vocative αὐτοφυείς αὐτοφύη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective αὐτοφυής αὐτοφυούς αὐτοφυέστερος αὐτοφυεστέρου αὐτοφυέστατος αὐτοφυεστάτου
Adverb αὐτοφυέως αὐτοφυέστερον αὐτοφυέστατα

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

  • "θαυμάζω δέ σου τὸν ξένον ὦ Σόλων εἰ Δηλίοισ ἔναγχοσ ποιησάμενοσ τὸν μέγαν καθαρμὸν οὐχ ἱστόρησε παρ’ αὐτοῖσ εἰσ τὸ ἱερὸν κομιζόμενα τῆσ πρώτησ ὑπομνήματα τροφῆσ καὶ δείγματα μετ’ ἄλλων εὐτελῶν καὶ αὐτοφυῶν μαλάχην καὶ ἀνθέρικον, ὧν εἰκόσ ἐστι καὶ τὸν Ἡσίοδον προξενεῖν ἡμῖν τὴν λιτότητα καὶ τὴν ἀφέλειαν. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 14 10:5)
  • οὕτω δὲ πάλαι ὀρυττομένησ τε καὶ ἐκφορουμένησ τῆσ ἀργυρίτιδοσ κατανοήσατε τί μέροσ οἱ ἐκβεβλημένοι σωροὶ τῶν αὐτοφυῶν τε καὶ ὑπαργύρων λόφων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 3:3)
  • καὶ μὴν ἄνθρωπόσ γε τί μὲν τῶν δένδρων διέφερε τῶν ἐν τῇ γῇ τῶν αὐτοφυῶν, ἑώσ ἐν γῇ μόνον ἦν; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:8)
  • τῶν μὲν αὐτοφυῶν, ἀήρ τε οὗτοσ ἐξαίρετοσ τοῦ πολλοῦ καὶ λιμένεσ τοσοῦτοι, ὧν εἷσ ἕκαστοσ ἀντάξιοσ πολλῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 97:8)
  • αὗται δ’ ἐπὶ λόφων αὐτοφυῶν ἢ χωμάτων ἵδρυνται, πόλεισ τε ἀξιόλογοι καὶ κῶμαι, νησίζουσαι κατὰ τὴν πόρρωθεν ὄψιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 8:13)

Synonyms

  1. one's own nature

Similar forms

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

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