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αὐτόνομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτόνομος

Structure: αὐτονομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ne/momai

Sense

  1. living under one's own laws, independent
  2. of one's own free will
  3. feeding and ranging at will

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ ἐν Μαλλοῖσ ἔθνει αὐτονόμῳ Ἰνδικῷ ξυνέβη, καὶ ἥ τε πόλισ Μαλλῶν ἦν καὶ οἱ βαλόντεσ Ἀλέξανδρον Μαλλοί, οἳ δὴ ἐγνώκεσαν μὲν ξυμμίξαντεσ τοῖσ Ὀξυδράκαισ οὕτω διαγωνίζεσθαι, ἔφθη δὲ διὰ τῆσ ἀνύδρου ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ ἐλάσασ πρίν τινα ὠφέλειαν αὐτοῖσ παρὰ τῶν Ὀξυδρακῶν γενέσθαι ἢ αὐτοὺσ ἐκείνοισ τι ἐπωφελῆσαι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 11 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. living under one's own laws

  2. of one's own free will

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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