αὐτόματος

From αὐτο- (auto-, “self”) + Proto-Hellenic *mətós, from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós, from *men- (“to think”) (whence μένος (ménos) and others).

αὐτόμᾰτος • (autómătos) m (feminine αὐτομᾰ́τη, neuter αὐτόμᾰτον); first/second declension
αὐτόμᾰτος • (autómătos) m or f (neuter αὐτόμᾰτον); second declension (Epic, Attic)

1. self-willed, unbidden
2. self-moving, self-propelled, spontaneous
3. (of plants) growing wild, unsown
4. without external cause or support, automatic
5. without cause, accidental, by chance

• Greek: αυτόματος (aftómatos)
• German: Automat (possibly from Latin)
• Latin: automatos, automatus
• English: automaton, automation, automatic

• “αὐτόματος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αὐτόματος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “αὐτόματος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• αὐτόματος 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
• αὐτόματος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• αὐτόματος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “αὐτόματος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G844 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.
  • accord idem, page 6.
  • automatic idem, page 54.
  • instinctive idem, page 446.
  • intuitive idem, page 456.
  • mechanical idem, page 521.
  • natural idem, page 551.
  • of idem, page 569.
  • spontaneous idem, page 804.