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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

  • Λακεδαίμονοσ δὲ καὶ Σπάρτησ τῆσ Εὐρώτα, ὃσ ἦν ἀπὸ Λέλεγοσ αὐτόχθονοσ καὶ νύμφησ νηίδοσ Κλεοχαρείασ, Ἀμύκλασ καὶ Εὐρυδίκη, ἣν ἔγημεν Ἀκρίσιοσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 10 4:2)
  • ἤδη γὰρ Λιβύη μὲν ἐπὶ Λιβύησ λέγεται ὑπὸ τῶν πολλῶν Ἑλλήνων ἔχειν τὸ οὔνομα γυναικὸσ αὐτόχθονοσ, ἡ δὲ Ἀσίη ἐπὶ τῆσ Προμηθέοσ γυναικὸσ τὴν ἐπωνυμίην. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 45 4:1)
  • ἐπὶ γενεὰσ μὲν δύο Ἀνακτορίαν καλεῖσθαι τὴν γῆν Ἄνακτόσ τε αὐτόχθονοσ καὶ Ἀστερίου βασιλεύοντοσ τοῦ Ἄνακτοσ, Μιλήτου δὲ κατάραντοσ στόλῳ Κρητῶν ἥ τε γῆ τὸ ὄνομα μετέβαλεν ἀπὸ τοῦ Μιλήτου καὶ ἡ πόλισ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 7:2)
  • γενέσθαι δὲ αὐτῇ τὸ ὄνομα <οἱ> μὲν ἀπὸ Ἀλαλκομενέωσ ἀνδρὸσ αὐτόχθονοσ, ὑπὸ τούτου δὲ Ἀθηνᾶν τραφῆναι λέγουσιν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 8:2)
  • τῶν δὲ ἀνθρώπων οἳ οἰκοῦσιν ἐπὶ τῷ Κηφισῷ τεσσαράκοντά ἐστιν ἀνωτέρω σταδίοισ Λέδοντοσ τῆσ ἀρχαίασ τὰ ἐρείπια, καὶ τὸ ὄνομα ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸσ λαβεῖν τὴν πόλιν φασὶν αὐτόχθονοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 2:4)

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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