ἑαυτοῦ
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editContraction of ἕο (héo, “him”) + αὐτοῦ (autoû, “self”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /he.au̯.tûː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)e.aʍˈtu/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.aɸˈtu/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.afˈtu/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.afˈtu/
Pronoun
editἑαυτοῦ • (heautoû)
- (3rd person) himself, herself, itself, themselves
- (Attic and Koine) used for first or second person: myself, yourself
- (in the plural) of one another
Usage notes
editDual forms of reflexive pronouns are rarely, if at all, attested.
Inflection
editNumber | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
Genitive | ἑαυτοῦ heautoû |
ἑαυτῆς heautês |
ἑαυτοῦ heautoû |
ἑαυτοῖν heautoîn |
ἑαυταῖν heautaîn |
ἑαυτοῖν heautoîn |
ἑαυτῶν heautôn |
ἑαυτῶν heautôn |
ἑαυτῶν heautôn | |||||
Dative | ἑαυτῷ heautôi |
ἑαυτῇ heautêi |
ἑαυτῷ heautôi |
ἑαυτοῖν heautoîn |
ἑαυταῖν heautaîn |
ἑαυτοῖν heautoîn |
ἑαυτοῖς / ἑαυτοῖσῐ / ἑαυτοῖσῐν heautoîs / heautoîsi(n) |
ἑαυταῖς heautaîs |
ἑαυτοῖς / ἑαυτοῖσῐ / ἑαυτοῖσῐν heautoîs / heautoîsi(n) | |||||
Accusative | ἑαυτόν heautón |
ἑαυτήν heautḗn |
ἑαυτό heautó |
ἑαυτώ heautṓ |
ἑαυτᾱ́ heautā́ |
ἑαυτώ heautṓ |
ἑαυτούς heautoús |
ἑαυτᾱ́ς heautā́s |
ἑαυτᾰ́ heautá | |||||
Vocative | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
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References
edit- “ἑαυτοῦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑαυτοῦ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἑαυτοῦ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἑαυτοῦ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1438 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible