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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

  • καὶ ψυχή, ἥτισ ποιήσει ἐν χειρὶ ὑπερηφανίασ ἀπὸ τῶν αὐτοχθόνων ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν προσηλύτων, τὸν Θεὸν οὗτοσ παροξυνεῖ, ἐξολοθρευθήσεται ἡ ψυχὴ ἐκείνη ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτῆσ, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 15:30)
  • ὅσον δὲ τῆσ εὐνοίασ τῆσ πρὸσ τὰσ πατρίδασ μέτεστιν τοῖσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ γνησίοισ πολίταισ μάθοι τισ ἂν ἐκ τῶν αὐτοχθόνων οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἐπήλυδεσ καθάπερ νόθοι ῥᾳδίασ ποιοῦνται τὰσ μεταναστάσεισ, τὸ μὲν τῆσ πατρίδοσ ὄνομα μήτε εἰδότεσ μήτε στέργοντεσ, ἡγούμενοι δ’ ἁπανταχοῦ τῶν ἐπιτηδείων εὐπορήσειν, μέτρον εὐδαιμονίασ τὰσ τῆσ γαστρὸσ ἡδονὰσ τιθέμενοι. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 10:1)
  • ὁ Ἀναχαρσισ δὲ πόθεν ἂν ἐκεῖνον ἔγνω ὁμοεθνῆ ὄντα, Ἑλληνιστὶ ἐσταλμένον, ὑπεξυρημένον τὸ γένειον, ἄζωστον, ἀσίδηρον, ἤδη στωμύλον, αὐτῶν τῶν Ἀττικῶν ἕνα τῶν αὐτοχθόνων; (Lucian, Scytha 7:2)
  • "καὶ μύκησ τισ ἐνίοτ’ ἂν ὠπτᾶτο καὶ κοχλίασ γενομένου ψακαδίου ἠγρεύετ’ ἂν καὶ λάχανα τῶν αὐτοχθόνων θλαστὴ τ’· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5265)
  • αὕτη καὶ τὸ τῶν ὑμετέρων προγόνων ἀρχαῖον γένοσ, τῶν αὐτοχθόνων καὶ πρώτων Ἀθηναίων, μητέρα μὲν τὴν γῆν αὐχοῦντασ, τροφὸν δὲ τὴν Δήμητρα, ἐπώνυμον δὲ καὶ σύμμαχον τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον τῶν Ἀθηνῶν εἰσ Εὔβοιαν ἐξήγαγεν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 20:2)

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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