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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “absolute ruler”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tyrannus m (genitive tyrannī); second declension
- ruler, monarch
- tyrant, despot
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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References
- “tyrannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tyrannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tyrannus 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)
- tyrannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to establish some one as king, tyrant: aliquem regem, tyrannum constituere
- “tyrannus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “tyrannus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tyrannus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin