αὐθέντης?
First declension Noun; Masculine
자동번역
Transliteration: authentēs
Principal Part:
αὐθέντης
αὐθέντου
Structure:
αὐθεντ
(Stem)
+
ης
(Ending)
Etym.: The part -έντης 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 οἱό῀ς 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
