# τοιοῦτος
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From τοῖος (toîos, “of this sort”) +‎ οὗτος (hoûtos, “this”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toi̯.ûː.tos/ → /tyˈu.tos/ → /tiˈu.tos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /toi̯.ûː.tos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /tyˈu.tos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /tyˈu.tos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /tyˈu.tos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /tiˈu.tos/

### Pronoun

τοιοῦτος • (toioûtos) (feminine τοιαύτη, neuter τοιοῦτο or τοιοῦτον)
* (demonstrative, medial, of quality) of this sort or kind, such
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.269
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 199D
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.428
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 691
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.21
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Agoratus 1
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Nicomachus 14
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 7.5
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 349D
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.2
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1075
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 175D
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.16
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.2
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.242
** 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 281B
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1298
** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 511C
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.63
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.6
** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 461E
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.2.26
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.2.27
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Demonicus 14
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1271
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.47
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.120
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.5
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.82
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 904D
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.207
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.82
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.10
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.58
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 952
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 291
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 642
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 42
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 9.40
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 40
** such a proceeding
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.76
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.21
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.37
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Agesilaus 6.7
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 4.1
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.7.5
** (in prose narrative) what goes before
*** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 500
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 696
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.5.12
** (absolute) such-like
*** 341 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Chersonese 25
** (referring to a previously mentioned adjective or adjectives)
*** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 92e:πότερον δὲ οὗτοι οἱ καλοὶ κἀγαθοὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτομάτου ἐγένοντο τοιοῦτοι, παρ’ οὐδενὸς μαθόντες ὅμως μέντοι ἄλλους διδάσκειν οἷοί τε ὄντες ταῦτα ἃ αὐτοὶ οὐκ ἔμαθον;póteron dè hoûtoi hoi kaloì kagathoì apò toû automátou egénonto toioûtoi, par’ oudenòs mathóntes hómōs méntoi állous didáskein hoîoí te óntes taûta hà autoì ouk émathon?And did these beautiful and good men become this way [i.e., beautiful and good] by accident, not learning it from anyone, nevertheless able in your opinion to teach others what they did not learn themselves?

#### Derived terms

* τοιαῦτᾰ (toiaûtă)
* τοιοῦτος τις (toioûtos tis)

#### See also

| type | interrogative | indefinite | (medial) demonstrative | proximal demonstrative | distal demonstrative | relative | indefinite relative | identity | other |
| basic | τίς | τις, ἔνιοι | †ὁ, οὗτος | ὅδε | ἐκεῖνος | ὅς | ὅστις | ὁ αὐτός (αὑτός), ὁμός | ἕτερος, ἄλλος |
| dual | πότερος | πότερος, ποτερός | | | | ὁπότερος | ὁπότερος | | |
| quality | ποῖος | ποιός | †τοῖος, τοιοῦτος | τοιόσδε | | οἷος | ὁποῖος | ὅμοιος | ἑτεροῖος, ἀλλοῖος |
| quantity | πόσος | ποσός | †τόσος, τοσοῦτος | τοσόσδε | | ὅσος | ὁπόσος | | |
| manner | πῶς | πως | †τώς, †ὥς, οὕτως | ὧδε | | ὡς | ὅπως | ὁμῶς | ἑτέρως, ἄλλως |
| method, path, place | πῇ | πῃ | τῇ, ταύτῃ | τῇδε | ἐκείνῃ | ᾗ | ὅπῃ | | ἄλλῃ |
| place | ποῦ, †πόθι | που, †ποθι | ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε | ἐκεῖ, ἔνθα, †ἐκεῖθι | οὗ, ἔνθα, †ὅθι | ὅπου, †ὁπόθι | αὐτόθι, ὁμοῦ | ἄλλοθι |
| source | πόθεν | ποθεν | †τόθεν, ἔνθεν, ἐντεῦθεν | ἐνθένδε | ἐκεῖθεν | ὅθεν | ὁπόθεν | †ὁμόθεν | ἄλλοθεν |
| destination | ποῖ, †πόσε | ποι | ἔνθα, ἐνταῦθα | ἐνθάδε, δεῦρο | ἐκεῖσε | οἷ | ὅποι, †ὁπόσε | αὐτόσε, ὁμόσε | ἄλλοσε |
| time | πότε, πῆμος | ποτέ, ποτε, τοτέ, ἐνίοτε | τότε, τῆμος | τημόσδε | | ὅτε, ἦμος | ὁπότε, †ὁππῆμος | ἅμα | ἄλλοτε |
| exact time | πηνίκα | | †τηνίκα, τηνικαῦτα | τηνικάδε | | ἡνίκα | ὁπηνίκα | αὐτίκα | |
| duration of time | | | τέως | | | ἕως | | | |
| size, age | πηλίκος | πηλίκος | †τηλίκος, τηλικοῦτος | τηλικόσδε | | ἡλίκος | ὁπηλίκος | ὁμῆλιξ | |
| repetition | ποσάκις, ποσίνδα | ποσάκις | τουτάκις, τοσάκις | | | †ὁσάκις ὁποσάκις | ὁποσάκις | | |
| multiplication | ποσαπλάσιος | | | | | ὁσαπλάσιος, ὁσαπλασίων | | | |
| order | πόστος | ποστός | | | | | ὁπόστος | | |
| † Forms rarely or never used in Classical Attic prose Relative also used in exclamations; either relative or indefinite relative used in indirect questions. ||||||||||

### References

* “τοιοῦτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “τοιοῦτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “τοιοῦτος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* τοιοῦτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* τοιοῦτος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “τοιοῦτος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G5108 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. kind idem, page 469.nature idem, page 552.sort idem, page 795.such idem, page 834.