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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

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

  • γεραιέ, τὰσ ἐμὰσ φυγὰσ ὁρᾷσ, ὁρᾷσ δὲ παίδων ὄντα μ’ αὐθέντην ἐμῶν· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:13)
  • μετὰ τὴν φθορὰν δὲ τοῦ γάμου τῆσ ἁρπαγῆσ ἐκάλεσε πλῆθοσ εἰσ τὸν αὐθέντην γάμον ἀνδρῶν χορευτῶν καὶ γυναικῶν ἀθλίων· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 192)
  • λαβόντεσ δ’ αὐτὸν ἱππέεσ τινεσ εἷλκον ἐσ τὸν Πομπήιον, ἐπιβλασφημούμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ἰδίων ὡσ αὐθέντην Σερτωρίου καὶ βοῶντα πολλὰ μηνύσειν τῷ Πομπηίῳ περὶ τῆσ Ῥώμῃ στάσεωσ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 13 9:5)
  • Δέκμον τε τὴν ἐγγὺσ Κελτικὴν ὑπερορᾶτε ἔχοντα, καὶ τόνδε τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ὁμοίωσ αὐθέντην τοὐμοῦ πατρὸσ γενόμενον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 2 8:4)
  • Μετέβαινεν δ’ ἐπὶ τὸν αὐθέντην Ἀντίπατρον ἡ ποινὴ τὸν Φερώρα θάνατον ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 820:1)

Synonyms

  1. a perpetrator of any act

  2. an absolute ruler

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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