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
- a perpetrator of any act, especially that he commits a murder with his own hand
- a suicide, a person who has intentionally killed himself
- 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.
- καὶ πῶσ με κηδεύσουσιν αὐθεντῶν χέρεσ; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:31)
- καὶ μὴν ὅπου γε δῆμοσ αὐθέντησ χθονόσ, ὑποῦσιν ἀστοῖσ ἥδεται νεανίαισ· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:11)
- δουλεύσω δ’ ἐν αὐθεντῶν δόμοισ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 2:14)
- 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)
- γεραιέ, τὰσ ἐμὰσ φυγὰσ ὁρᾷσ, ὁρᾷσ δὲ παίδων ὄντα μ’ αὐθέντην ἐμῶν· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:13)
- οὐκ ἂν γένοιθ’ ὅμαιμοσ αὐθέντησ φόνοσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode25)
- "ὦ βασιλεῦ, ἐπείτε παρέλαβον τὸ παιδίον, ἐβούλευον σκοπέων ὅκωσ σοί τε ποιήσω κατὰ νόον, καὶ ἐγὼ πρὸσ σὲ γινόμενοσ ἀναμάρτητοσ μήτε θυγατρὶ τῇ σῇ μήτε αὐτῷ σοὶ εἰήν αὐθέντησ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 117 4:1)
Synonyms
-
a perpetrator of any act
- αὐτοχειρία (murder perpetrated by one's own hand, with one's own hand)
-
an absolute ruler
