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αὐτόχθονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτόχθονος αὐτόχθονη αὐτόχθονον

Structure: αὐτοχθον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xqw/n

Sense

  1. country and all

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

  • ὥστε θᾶττον ἂν Ἐρεχθέα καὶ τὸν Κέκροπα ξένουσ ἀποφήναισ καὶ ἐπήλυδασ τῶν Ἀθηνῶν ἢ τὴν ἀποφράδα δείξειασ οὐκ οἰκείαν καὶ αὐτόχθονα τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 8:4)
  • ὦ σύγγον’, ἐλθὼν λαὸν εἰσ αὐτόχθονα κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν ‐ οἶσθα γὰρ θεᾶσ πόλιν ‐ λαβὼν βρέφοσ νεογνὸν ἐκ κοίλησ πέτρασ αὐτῷ σὺν ἄγγει σπαργάνοισί θ’ οἷσ ἔχει ἔνεγκε Δελφῶν τἀμὰ πρὸσ χρηστήρια, καὶ θὲσ πρὸσ αὐταῖσ εἰσόδοισ δόμων ἐμῶν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:8)
  • ποῖον ἔθνοσ ἀνθρώπων καθαρᾷ διαλέκτῳ χρώμενον ἐρεῖ γένεσιν τὴν μὲν αὐτόχθονα τὴν δὲ ἐπήλυδα; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 27 1:2)
  • ἐπανάγωμεν δὲ νῦν πάλιν ἐπὶ τὸν Πελασγόν, ὃν Ἀκουσίλαοσ μὲν Διὸσ λέγει καὶ Νιόβησ, καθάπερ ὑπέθεμεν, Ἡσίοδοσ δὲ αὐτόχθονα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 8 1:1)
  • τοῦτον ἔνιοι μὲν Δευκαλίωνοσ, ἔνιοι δὲ αὐτόχθονα λέγουσι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 6:2)
  • Ἡσίοδοσ δὲ τὸν Πελασγὸν αὐτόχθονά φησιν εἶναι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 1 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. country and all

Related

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

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