αὐθέντης

• αὐτοέντης (autoéntēs)

From αὐτο- (auto-, “self”) +‎ *ἕντης (*héntēs), from the full-grade of Proto-Indo-European *senh₁- (“to prepare, work on, succeed”) +‎ -της (-tēs, masculine agentive suffix), whence also ἀνύω (anúō, “I effect, accomplish”), συνέντης (sunéntēs, “helper, accomplice”).^[1]

αὐθέντης • (authéntēs) m (genitive αὐθέντου); first declension

1. a perpetrator of any act, especially that he commits a murder with his own hand
2. a suicide, a person who has intentionally killed himself
3. an absolute ruler, an autocrat

• αὐθεντέω (authentéō)
• αὐθεντία (authentía)
• αὐθεντικός (authentikós)

• Greek: αφέντης m (aféntis), αυθέντης m (afthéntis) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkish: efendi, efendim

• “αὐθέντης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “αὐθέντης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• αὐθέντης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• αὐθέντης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• αὐθέντης in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • culprit idem, page 188.
  • fratricidal idem, page 343.
  • murderer idem, page 546.
  • slayer idem, page 783.
  • suicide idem, page 836.
• “αὐθέντης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011