αὐτό-χθων, ον,
genitive ονος, sprung from the land itself; αὐτόχθονες, οἱ, not settlers, of native stock, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.171, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.2, etc.: with _genitive_, αὐ. Ἰταλίας 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.10] Refs 5th c.BC+]: especially of the Athenians, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 29, +others, “fragment” 360.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1076, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.24, 12.124. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II adjective, indigenous, native, τὰ μὲν δύο αὐτόχθονα τῶν ἐθνέων[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.197; αὐ. Αἰγύπτιοι “PGiss.” 99.5 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀρετή[[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.43; λάχανα τῶν αὐτοχθόνων Poliochus Comicus 2.6; κόσμος 4th c.BC: Philodamus Scarpheus Lyricus 127] Refs 5th c.BC+]; urbanitas, racy of the soil, [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 7.2.3.] Refs 1st c.BC+]