αὐτόματον (automaton)

αὐτόματον is an Ancient Greek form of αὐτόματος, meaning “of its own accord”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.871: αὐτόματον δώσει τις ἑλὼν θεὸς εὐξαμένοισιν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 36.27.5: … ν ἀγαθοὺς ἄνδρας εἶναι, καὶ εἴγε καὶ εὔξασθαι δεῖ, εὐξαίμην ἄν· ἐπεὶ δʼ οὔτʼ εὐχῆς τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτό ἐστιν οὔτʼ αὐτόματόν τῳ παραγίγνεται, ἀλλὰ δεῖ καὶ φῦναί τινα πρὸς αὐτὸ ἐπιτηδείως, καὶ μαθεῖν τὰ πρόσφορα, καὶ ἀσκῆσαι τὰ προσήκο …

All forms of αὐτόματος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.