αὐτονομία
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See also: αυτονομία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “autonomous, independent”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, “-y, -ia”, nominal suffix), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self”) + νόμος (nómos, “usage, custom; law, ordinance”) + -ος (-os, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /au̯.to.no.mí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aʍ.to.noˈmi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aɸ.to.noˈmi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /af.to.noˈmi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /af.to.noˈmi.a/
Noun
αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ • (autonomĭ́ā) f (genitive αὐτονομῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- autonomy, independence, freedom to use its own laws
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ hē autonomĭ́ā |
τὼ αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ tṑ autonomĭ́ā |
αἱ αὐτονομῐ́αι hai autonomĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς αὐτονομῐ́ᾱς tês autonomĭ́ās |
τοῖν αὐτονομῐ́αιν toîn autonomĭ́ain |
τῶν αὐτονομῐῶν tôn autonomĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ αὐτονομῐ́ᾳ têi autonomĭ́āi |
τοῖν αὐτονομῐ́αιν toîn autonomĭ́ain |
ταῖς αὐτονομῐ́αις taîs autonomĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν αὐτονομῐ́ᾱν tḕn autonomĭ́ān |
τὼ αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ tṑ autonomĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς αὐτονομῐ́ᾱς tā̀s autonomĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ autonomĭ́ā |
αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ autonomĭ́ā |
αὐτονομῐ́αι autonomĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- αὐτονομέομαι (autonoméomai)
Descendants
Descendants
- → English: autonomy
- Greek: αυτονομία f (aftonomía)
- → Russian: автоно́мия (avtonómija)
References
- “αὐτονομία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “αὐτονομία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- αὐτονομία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὐτονομία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- autonomy idem, page 54.
- freedom idem, page 344.
- independence idem, page 432.
- integrity idem, page 448.
- liberty idem, page 488.