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ἑαυτοῦ

Pronoun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑαυτοῦ ἑαυτῆς ἑαυτοῦ

Structure: ἑαυτ (Stem) + ου (Ending)

Sense

  1. (reflexive) himself, herself, itself, etc.
  2. (in Attic, used for first or second person) myself, yourself
  3. (in the plural) of one another

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

  • πορευόμενα ἐπορεύθη τὰ ξύλα τοῦ χρῖσαι ἐφ̓ ἑαυτὰ βασιλέα καὶ εἶπον τῇ ἐλαίᾳ. βασίλευσον ἐφ̓ ἡμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:8)
  • τὰ θηρία ἐστὶκρείττῳ αὐτῶν, ἃ δύνανται ἐκφυγόντα εἰσ σκέπην ἑαυτὰ ὠφελῆσαι. (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:68)
  • "ὧν οὔτε καθ’ ἑαυτὰ ποιότησ ἐστὶν οὔτε πάθοσ ἢ μεταβολὴ συνελθόντων, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ συνέλευσισ ἡ σύγκρασιν ποιοῦσα καὶ μῖξιν καὶ συμφυϊάν ἀλλὰ πληγὰσ καὶ ἀποπηδήσεισ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 10 1:13)
  • "ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὅσησ ἐστὶ μεστὰ ταραχῆσ καὶ μάχησ πρὸσ ἑαυτά, τί δεῖ λέγειν ἐν τῷ παρόντι; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 261)
  • δευτέρα δὲ καθ’ ἣν τῶν μὴ φωνηέντων ἃ μὲν καθ’ ἑαυτὰ ψόφουσ ὁποίουσ δή τινασ ἀποτελεῖν πέφυκε, ῥοῖζον ἢ σιγμὸν ἢ μυγμὸν ἢ τοιούτων τινῶν ἄλλων ἤχων δηλωτικούσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 145)

Synonyms

  1. himself

  2. myself

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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