αὐτόθεν
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 11 February 2022
Etymology
αὐτός (autós, “the very, oneself”) + -θεν (-then, “from”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /au̯.tó.tʰen/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aʍˈto.tʰen/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aɸˈto.θen/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /afˈto.θen/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /afˈto.θen/
Adverb
αὐτόθεν • (autóthen)
- from that very place; often combined with a prepositional phrase headed by ἐξ (ex)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.77:
- τοῖσι δὲ καὶ μετέειπεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων
αὐτόθεν ἐξ ἕδρης- toîsi dè kaì metéeipen ánax andrôn Agamémnōn
autóthen ex hédrēs - Agamemnon, king of men, spoke to them from his very seat
- toîsi dè kaì metéeipen ánax andrôn Agamémnōn
- τοῖσι δὲ καὶ μετέειπεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων
- from oneself, of one's own accord
- 350 BCE – 280 BCE, Demetrius of Phalerum, On Style 32
- 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles 351
- at once, immediately
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 213a:
- ἀλλά μοι λέγετε αὐτόθεν
- allá moi légete autóthen
- but tell me immediately
- ἀλλά μοι λέγετε αὐτόθεν