ἑαυτοῦ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἑωυτοῦ (heōutoû) – Ionic
αὑτοῦ (hautoû) – Attic
αὐταύτου (autaútou) – Doric

Etymology

Attic contraction of ἑο (heo, “him”) +‎ αὐτοῦ (autoû, “self”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /he.au̯.tôː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ɛ.aʍˈtu/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.aɸˈtu/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.afˈtu/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.afˈtu/

Pronoun

ἑαυτοῦ • (heautoû)

(reflexive, reciprocal)

(3rd person) himself, herself, itself, themselves
- 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 78
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 152B
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.141
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 157A
- 460 BCE – 395 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 – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.86
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.8
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 350A
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.8
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.85
(Attic and Koine) used for first or second person: myself, yourself
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 221
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 138
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1297
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 101C
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Belopoeica 59.16
- 460 BCE – 395 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
- New Testament, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 7:1
(in the plural) of one another
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.49
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.25
- 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 144
- 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 19
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 10
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Lysis 215B

Usage notes

Dual forms of reflexive pronouns are rarely, if at all, attested.

Inflection

First and second declension of ἑαυτοῦ, ἑαυτῆς, ἑαυτοῦ

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Genitive	ἑαυτοῦ	ἑαυτῆς	ἑαυτοῦ	ἑαυτοῖν	ἑαυταῖν	ἑαυτοῖν	ἑαυτῶν	ἑαυτῶν	ἑαυτῶν
Dative	ἑαυτῷ	ἑαυτῇ	ἑαυτῷ	ἑαυτοῖν	ἑαυταῖν	ἑαυτοῖν	ἑαυτοῖς	ἑαυταῖς	ἑαυτοῖς
Accusative	ἑαυτόν	ἑαυτήν	ἑαυτόν	ἑαυτώ	ἑαυτᾱ́	ἑαυτώ	ἑαυτούς	ἑαυτᾱ́ς	ἑαυτᾰ́

References

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 (2006–2018)
G1438 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

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