Illustrations of English words derived from the Greek in the New Testament.
Gaylon West.
History of English word
auto-
word-forming element meaning "self, one's own, by oneself," from Greek auto- "self, one's own," combining form of autos "self, same," of unknown origin. Before a vowel, aut-; before an aspirate, auth-. In Greek also used as a prefix to proper names, as in automelinna "Melinna herself." The opposite prefix would be allo-.
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Thayer Definition:
1) himself, herself, themselves, itself
2) he, she, it
3) the same
Part of Speech: pronoun
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from the particle au [perhaps akin to the base of G109 through the idea of a baffling wind] (backward)
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