Alternative forms

• ᾱὑτοῦ (āhutoû) — Attic, Koine, contracted
• ἑᾱτοῦ (heātoû) — Attic
• ἑωυτοῦ (heōutoû) — Ionic
• αὐταύτου (autaútou), αὐταυτοῦ (autautoû), αὐσαυτοῦ (ausautoû) — Doric
• ϝιαυτοῦ (wiautoû) — Cretan

Etymology

Contraction of ἕο αὐτοῦ (héo autoû), literally “his self”Category:Ancient Greek contractions#ΕΑΥΤΟΥ.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (5th bc Attic) IPA^(key): /he.aːu̯.tûː/Category:Ancient Greek 3-syllable words#ΕΑΥΤΟΥCategory:Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΕΑΥΤΟΥ

Pronoun

ἑᾱυτοῦ • (heāutoû) (feminine ἑᾱυτῆς, neuter ἑᾱυτοῦ)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΕΑΥΤΟΥCategory:Ancient Greek pronouns#ΕΑΥΤΟΥCategory:Ancient Greek reflexive pronouns#ΕΑΥΤΟΥCategory:Ancient Greek reciprocal pronouns#ΕΑΥΤΟΥCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΕΑΥΤΟΥCategory:Pages with entries#ΕΑΥΤΟΥCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ΕΑΥΤΟΥ; first/second declension

1. (third person) himself; herself; itself; themselves
   • c. 620 BCE – 580 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 78
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 152B
   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.141
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 157A
   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.60
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.10.3
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.13.3
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.86
   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.8
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 350A
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.8
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.85
2. (AtticCategory:Attic Greek#ΕΑΥΤΟΥ and KoineCategory:Koine Greek#ΕΑΥΤΟΥ) used for first or second person: myself; yourself
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 221
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 138
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1297
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 101C
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 59.16
   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.82
   • 341 BCE – 270 BCE, Epicurus, Vatican Sayings 47
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, 1 Samuel 14.9
   • 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 7:1
3. (in the plural) of one another
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.49
   • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.25
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 145
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 19
   • 351 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 10
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Lysis 215B

References

Further reading

• “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 (2006–2026)
• G1438 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἑαυτοῦ, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011