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English
- aut- (used before a vowel)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”).
Prefix
auto-
- Reflexive, regarding or to oneself.
- auto- + biography → autobiography
- auto- + erotic → autoerotic
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
regarding oneself
- Afrikaans: outo-
- Albanian: auto-
- Aragonese: auto-
- Armenian: ինքն (hy) (inkʻn), ավտո- (avto-)
- Asturian: auto-
- Azerbaijani: avto-
- Basque: auto- (eu)
- Belarusian: аўта- (aŭta-)
- Bulgarian: авто- (avto-)
- Catalan: auto- (ca)
- Czech: auto- (cs)
- Danish: auto-, selv-
- Dutch: auto- (nl)
- Esperanto: aŭto-
- Estonian: auto- (et)
- Finnish: auto- (fi), itse-, oma- (fi)
- French: auto- (fr)
- Galician: auto- (gl)
- Georgian: ავტო- (avṭo-)
- German: auto- (de)
- Greek: αυτο- (el) (afto-)
- Ancient: αὐτό- (autó-)
- Hebrew: אוֹטוֹ־ (oto-)
- Hungarian: auto- (hu)
- Ido: auto-
- Indonesian: auto-, swa-
- Interlingua: auto-
- Italian: auto- (it)
- Kazakh: авто- (avto-)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: oto- (ku)
- Kyrgyz: авто- (avto-)
- Latin: auto-
- Latvian: auto-
- Lithuanian: auto-
- Macedonian: авто- (avto-)
- Malay: swa- (ms)
- Maltese: awto-
- Moroccan Amazigh: -ⵎⴰⵏ m (-man), -ⵎⴰⵏⵜ f (-mant), -ⵎⴰⵏⵏ pl or m pl (-mann), -ⵎⴰⵏⵉⵏ pl or f pl (-manin)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: selv-, auto-
- Nynorsk: auto-
- Occitan: auto-
- Persian: اتو (fa) (oto-), خود (fa) (xod-)
- Polish: auto- (pl), samo- (pl)
- Portuguese: auto- (pt)
- Romanian: auto- (ro)
- Cyrillic: ауто- (auto-)
- Russian: авто- (ru) (avto-), само- (ru) (samo-), себе- (sebe-)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ауто-
- Roman: auto-
- Sicilian: autu-
- Slovak: auto-
- Slovene: avto-
- Spanish: auto- (es)
- Swedish: auto- (sv)
- Tagalog: awto-
- Tajik: авто- (avto-)
- Turkish: oto- (tr)
- Turkmen: awto-
- Ukrainian: авто- (uk) (avto-)
- Uzbek: avto- (uz)
- Yiddish: אויטאָ־ (oyto-)
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Etymology 2
Clipping of automatic
Prefix
auto-
- Automatic.
- auto- + focus → autofocus
- auto- + loader → autoloader
- auto- + walk → autowalk
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
Clipping of automobile, from auto- + mobile
Prefix
auto-
- Relating to cars or the driving of cars.
- auto- + cross → autocross
- auto- + -phile → autophile
Derived terms
Translations
relating to cars or the driving of cars
Derived terms
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-).
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- auto- (regarding oneself)
- auto- (relating to cars)
Derived terms
Further reading
Czech
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- auto- (regarding oneself)
- Synonym: sebe-
- auto- + cenzura → autocenzura
Derived terms
Further reading
- “auto-”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- auto- I in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
- auto- II in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Danish
Prefix
auto-
- self
- autobiografi, autofiktion
- automatic
- autozoom, autopilot
- cars
- autoskade, autoværksted
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English auto-), ultimately from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-).
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- auto-, self- (regarding oneself)
- Synonyms: oma-, itse-
- autobiografia ― autobiography
- autonomia ― autonomy
- omaelämäkerta ― autobiography
- itsehallinto ― self-governance, autonomy
- auto- (automatic)
- Synonyms: automaatti-, automaattinen
- autopilotti ― autopilot
- automaattiohjaus ― autopilot
Usage notes
- In Finnish the prefix auto- is chiefly used with loanwords, see usage examples above.
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-), from αὐτός (autós, “self”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- auto- (regarding oneself)
- auto- (automatic)
- auto- (relating to cars)
Usage notes
- Auto- is sometimes added to reflexive verbs in order to stress the reflexiveness of the action. When this is done, the reflexive pronoun is always used as well:
- Je m'auto-sabote. ― I sabotage myself. (literally, “I self-sabotage myself.”)
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-).
Prefix
auto-
- auto-, self-
Derived terms
From
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Further reading
German
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- auto-
Derived terms
Hungarian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”).[1]
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- auto- (regarding oneself)
- auto- (automatic)
Derived terms
References
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch auto-, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- auto-: regarding oneself.
Derived terms
Further reading
Italian
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”).
Prefix
auto-
- (highly productive) auto-, self- (regarding oneself; by oneself)
- (highly productive) auto-, self- (automatic)
- (mathematics) eigen-
- (rare) homo- (same)
Derived terms
Further reading
- auto-1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
From auto, automobile.
Prefix
auto-
- auto- (relating to cars)
Derived terms
Further reading
- auto-2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”).
Prefix
auto-
- auto-
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”).
Prefix
auto-
- auto-
Derived terms
References
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-).
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- auto-, as relating to oneself
- Synonym: samo-
- auto- + biografia → autobiografia
- auto-, automatic
- Synonym: samo-
- auto- + pilot → autopilot
- auto-, as relating to cars
- Synonym: samo-
- auto- + alarm → autoalarm
Derived terms
Further reading
- auto- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
auto-
- self-; auto- (done by or directed at oneself)
- auto- + ódio (“hatred”) → auto-ódio (“self-hatred”)
- auto- (automatic)
- auto- + foco (“foco”) → autofoco (“autofocus”)
- auto- (relating to automobiles)
- auto- + carro (“car”) → autocarro (“bus”)
- (Brazil, linear algebra) eigen- (relating to eigenvectors and eigenvalues)
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-).
Prefix
auto-
- auto-
- drive-in
Derived terms
Further reading