Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

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

Pronoun

ἑαυτοῦ • ‎(heautoû) (reflexive, reciprocal)

1. (3rd person) himself, herself, itself, themselves
   • 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 78
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 152.B
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.141
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 157.A
   • 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 350.A
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.8
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.85
2. (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 101.C
   • 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
3. (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 215.B

Inflection

Usage notes

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

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 (© 2006–2016)
• “G1438”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979