Etym.: turanneu/w always in Hdt.; both in attic Poets, as the metre required.

Sense

1. to be a tu/rannos, an absolute sovereign or despot, to become such, to be a prince or princess
2. to be despotic ruler of
3. to govern, to be governed despotically
4. to be tyrannical, imperious

Examples

• ἐπεὶ Ἵππαρχον τὸν Πεισιστράτου, Ἱππίεω δὲ τοῦ τυράννου ἀδελφεόν, ἰδόντα ὄψιν ἐνυπνίου τῷ ἑωυτοῦ πάθεϊ ἐναργεστάτην κτείνουσι Ἀριστογείτων καὶ Ἁρμόδιοσ, γένοσ ἐόντεσ τὰ ἀνέκαθεν Γεφυραῖοι, μετὰ ταῦτα ἐτυραννεύοντο Ἀθηναῖοι ἐπ’ ἔτεα τέσσερα οὐδὲν ἧσσον ἀλλὰ καὶ μᾶλλον ἢ πρὸ τοῦ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 55 2:2)

Similar forms

• τυραννεῖν (56)
• τύραννε (20)
• τυραννεῖσθαι (8)
• τυραννεύσας (6)
• τυραννεῖον (6)
• τυραννεῖς (3)
• τυραννεύων (3)
• τυραννεῖ (3)
• τυραννεῖα (2)
• τυραννεύειν (2)
• τυραννεύει (2)
• τυραννευθεὶς (1)
• τυραννεύοντα (1)
• τυραννεύσῃ (1)
• τυραννείων (1)
• τυραννεύουσι (1)
• τυραννεύσειν (1)
• τυραννεῦσαι (1)
• τυραννείοις (1)
• τυραννεύοντι (1)
• τυραννεύσους (1)
• τυραννεύσασα (1)

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

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