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τυραννίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τυραννίς τυραννίδος

Structure: τυραννιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: tu/rannos

Sense

  1. kingly power, sovereignty
  2. absolute power, despotic rule, lordship

Declension

Third 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

  • γενέσθαι δίχα τυραννίδα καὶ ἐξ Ἐφραὶμ ἄρξαι βασιλείαν ἀπειθῆ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 47:21)
  • θαυμασθέντεσ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι οὐ μόνον ὑπὸ πάντων ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τῇ ἀνδρείᾳ καὶ τῇ ὑπομονῇ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν αἰκισαμένων, αἴτιοι κατέστησαν τοῦ καταλυθῆναι τὴν κατὰ τοῦ ἔθνουσ τυραννίδα, νικήσαντεσ τὸν τύραννον τῇ ὑπομονῇ, ὥστε δι’ αὐτῶν καθαρισθῆναι τὴν πατρίδα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:10)
  • οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντεσ ἐπαγωγὰ καὶ ὁρῶντεσ δεινά, οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἐφοβήθησαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀντεφιλοσόφησαν τῷ τυράννῳ καὶ διὰ τῆσ εὐλογιστίασ τὴν τυραννίδα αὐτοῦ κατέλυσαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 8:15)
  • ἓξ μειράκια καταλελύκαμέν σου τὴν τυραννίδα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 11:24)
  • πικρὰν δ’ οὖν τὴν τυραννίδα ἕξεισ γευσάμενοσ τοῦ ξύλου. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 13:15)

Synonyms

  1. kingly power

Related

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

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