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αὐτόματος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτόματος αὐτομάτη αὐτόματον

Structure: αὐτοματ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. self-willed, unbidden
  2. self-moving, self-propelled
  3. (of plants) growing wild, unsown
  4. without external cause or support
  5. without cause, accidental, by chance

Examples

  • "ἀλλ’ ὅ γε Μεταγένησ τάδε φησίν ὁ μὲν ποταμὸσ ὁ Κρᾶθισ ἡμῖν καταφέρει μάζασ μεγίστασ αὐτομάτασ μεμαγμένασ, ὁ δ’ ἕτεροσ ὠθεῖ κῦμα ναστῶν καὶ κρεῶν ἑφθῶν τε βατίδων εἰλυομένων αὐτόσε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:165)
  • τοῦτο ἦν ἄρα καὶ χρυσοῦν γένοσ καὶ νῆσοι μακάρων τινέσ, αὐτομάτασ ἔχουσαι τροφάσ, καὶ Ἡρακλέουσ κέρασ καὶ Κυκλώπων βίοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 12:2)

Synonyms

  1. self-willed

  2. without cause

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