οὗτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

LSJ: "οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο prob arose from a reduplication of the demonstr. ὁ, ἡ, τό with insertion of -υ-"

Pronunciation

• Audio of οὗτος, αὕτη, τοῦτο (Classical Attic)

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Determiner

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

• Doric: gen. sg. fem. is τούτᾱς (toútās) and nom. pl. masc./fem. is τοῦτοι (toûtoi) or ταῦται (taûtai)
• Cretic: gen. pl. fem./neut. is ταυτᾶν (tautân) or ταύτων (taútōn)
• Boeotian: all forms begin with οὑτ- (hout-)

Descendants

• Greek: ούτος (oútos), τούτος (toútos)

See also

Further reading

• “οὗτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “οὗτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “οὗτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• οὗτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• οὗτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “οὗτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3778 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • defendant idem, page 204.
  • fellow idem, page 314.
  • he idem, page 389.
  • ho idem, page 401.
  • latter idem, page 478.
  • there idem, page 865.
  • this idem, page 867.
  • you idem, page 997.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 333
• William W. Goodwin, A Greek Grammar. Revised and enlarged, Boston, 1900, p.85f.