See also: ούτος

Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Synchronically analyzable as (ho) + αὐτός (autós, self; third-person pronoun).[1]

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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οὗτος (hoûtos), f αὕτη (haútē), n τοῦτο (toûto) (medial demonstrative determiner and pronoun)

  1. this
    1. (of place) here
    2. in contrast with ὅδε (hóde): the preceding
      • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 93b:
        εἰ διδακτόν ἐστιν ἀρετὴ πάλαι σκοποῦμεν. τοῦτο δὲ σκοποῦντες τόδε σκοποῦμεν, ἆρα οἱ ἀγαθοὶ ἄνδρες καὶ τῶν νῦν καὶ τῶν προτέρων ταύτην τὴν ἀρετὴν ἣν αὐτοὶ ἀγαθοὶ ἦσαν ἠπίσταντο καὶ ἄλλῳ παραδοῦναι
        ei didaktón estin aretḕ pálai skopoûmen. toûto dè skopoûntes tóde skopoûmen, âra hoi agathoì ándres kaì tôn nûn kaì tôn protérōn taútēn tḕn aretḕn hḕn autoì agathoì êsan ēpístanto kaì állōi paradoûnai
        We have been considering for a long time if virtue is teachable. In considering that question, we are considering the following: did the good men, both from now and before, understand this virtue by which they were good, and how to pass it along to another?
    3. in contrast with ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos): the latter
    4. of someone or something famous or infamous

Declension

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Descendants

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “οὗτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1132

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