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αὐθέντης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐθέντης αὐθέντου

Structure: αὐθεντ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: The part -e/nths is of uncertain deriv.

Sense

  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

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αὐθέντης αὐθέντᾱ αὐθένται
Genitive αὐθέντου αὐθένταιν αὐθεντῶν
Dative αὐθέντῃ αὐθένταιν αὐθένταις
Accusative αὐθέντην αὐθέντᾱ αὐθέντᾱς
Vocative αὐθέντα αὐθέντᾱ αὐθένται

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ εἶ’, ἄτεγκτον συλλαβοῦσα καρδίαν, Νυκτὸσ κελαινῆσ ἀνυμέναιε παρθένε, μανίασ τ’ ἐπ’ ἀνδρὶ τῷδε καὶ παιδοκτόνουσ φρενῶν ταραγμοὺσ καὶ ποδῶν σκιρτήματα ἔλαυνε, κίνει, φόνιον ἐξίει κάλων, ὡσ ἂν πορεύσασ δι’ Ἀχερούσιον πόρον τὸν καλλίπαιδα στέφανον αὐθέντῃ φόνῳ γνῷ μὲν τὸν Ἥρασ οἱο͂́σ ἐστ’ αὐτῷ χόλοσ, μάθῃ δὲ τὸν ἐμόν· (Euripides, Heracles, episode 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a perpetrator of any act

  2. an absolute ruler

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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