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Latin
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek τυραννίς (turannís).
Pronunciation
Noun
tyrannis f (genitive tyrannidis); third declension
- tyranny; arbitrary or despotic rule
1313, Dante Alighieri, “Liber I [Book 1]”, in De monarchia [About monarchy]:Genus humanum solum imperante Monarcha, sui, et non alterius gratia, est: tunc enim solum Politiae diriguntur obliquae, democratiae scilicet, oligarchiae atque tyrannides, quae in servitute cogunt genus humanum.- Only when the monarch rules, mankind exists for his own sake, and not of others: for only then are the twisted governments rightened, namely democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, which force mankind into slavery.
- (by extension) the region ruled by a tyrant
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Inflected form of tyrannus (“tyrant, ruler”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tyrannīs
- dative/ablative plural of tyrannus
References
- “tyrannis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tyrannis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tyrannis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tyrannis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take upon oneself absolute power: imperium, regnum, tyrannidem occupare
- to aspire to a despotism: tyrannidem concupiscere
- to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re