Ancient Greek

Adjective

οὗτος • ‎(hoûtos), f αὕτη ‎(haútē), n τοῦτο ‎(toûto) (medial demonstrative adjective and pronoun)

1. this
   1. (of place) here
   2. in contrast with ὅδε ‎(hóde): the preceding
      • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 93.b

        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

        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

Inflection

• Doric: gen. sg. fem. is τούτας ‎(toútas) 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)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.