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Ancient Greek
Etymology
τύραννος (túrannos) + -ίς (-ís)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ty.ran.nís/ → /ty.ranˈnis/ → /ti.raˈnis/
Noun
τῠραννίς • (turannís) f (genitive τῠραννίδος); third declension
- monarchy, sovereignty
- tyranny
- territory of a princeling
- (Koine) princess
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- τυραννίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “τυραννίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τυραννίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- autocracy idem, page 54.
- domination idem, page 247.
- dynasty idem, page 258.
- government idem, page 368.
- kingship idem, page 470.
- royalty idem, page 724.
- rule idem, page 725.
- sovereignty idem, page 797.
- throne idem, page 870.
- tyranny idem, page 905.
- usurpation idem, page 941.