Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

αὐτουργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτουργός αὐτουργόν

Structure: αὐτουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: E)/rgw

Sense

  1. self-working
  2. one who works his land himself, a husbandman, poor farmer, one that has worked, by himself
  3. self-wrought, simple, native

Examples

  • καὶ ἔστι λέξισ κρατίστη πασῶν, ἥτισ ἂν ἔχῃ πλείστασ ἀναπαύλασ τε καὶ μεταβολὰσ ἐναρμονίουσ, ὅταν τουτὶ μὲν ἐν περιόδῳ λέγηται, τουτὶ δ’ ἔξω περιόδου καὶ ἥδε μὲν ἡ περίοδοσ ἐκ πλειόνων πλέκηται κώλων, ἥδε δ’ ἐξ ἐλαττόνων, αὐτῶν δὲ τῶν κώλων τὸ μὲν βραχύτερον ᾖ, τὸ δὲ μακρότερον καὶ τὸ μὲν αὐτουργότερον , τὸ δὲ ἀκριβέστερον, ῥυθμοί τε ἄλλοτε ἄλλοι καὶ σχήματα παντοῖα καὶ τάσεισ φωνῆσ αἱ καλούμεναι προσῳδίαι διάφοροι κλέπτουσαι τῇ ποικιλίᾳ τὸν κόρον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1917)

Synonyms

  1. self-working

  2. self-wrought

Related

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

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