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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

  • οὐ δεσμοῖσι διὰ τυραννίδασ πατέρασ ἐκηλίδωσαν; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 3:22)
  • οἵ τε γὰρ πόλεμοι πρὸσ ἐνδόξουσ γεγόνασιν ἀμφοτέροισ ἀνταγωνιστάσ, τῷ μὲν Μακεδόνασ, τῷ δὲ Καρχηδονίουσ, αἵ τε νῖκαι περιβόητοι, τοῦ μὲν ἑλόντοσ Μακεδονίαν καὶ τὴν ἀπ’ Ἀντιγόνου διαδοχὴν ἐν ἑβδόμῳ βασιλεῖ καταπαύσαντοσ, τοῦ δὲ τὰσ τυραννίδασ πάσασ ἀνελόντοσ ἐκ Σικελίασ καὶ τὴν νῆσον ἐλευθερώσαντοσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Timoleon and Aemilius, chapter 1 1:2)
  • Ιἑρώνυμοσ δ’ ὁ περιπατητικὸσ περισπουδάστουσ φησὶν γενέσθαι τοὺσ τῶν παίδων ἔρωτασ ὅτι πολλάκισ ἡ τῶν νέων ἀκμὴ καὶ τὸ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἑταιρικὸν συμφρονῆσαν πολλὰσ τυραννίδασ καθεῖλεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 781)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Κράτησ διὰ τρυφὴν καὶ πολυτέλειαν οἰόμενοσ οὐχ ἥκιστα τὰσ στάσεισ καὶ τὰσ τυραννίδασ ἐμφύεσθαι ταῖσ πόλεσι, μετὰ παιδιᾶσ παρῄνει μὴ πρὸ φακῆσ λοπάδ’ αὔξων εἰσ στάσιν ἄμμε βάλῃσ αὐτὸσ δέ τισ ἑαυτῷ παρακελευέσθω μὴ πρὸ φακῆσ λοπάδ’ αὔξων μηδὲ πάντωσ ὑπερβαίνων τὴν καρδαμίδα καὶ τὴν ἐλαίαν ἐπὶ τὸ θρῖον καὶ τὸν ἰχθὺν εἰσ στάσιν ἐκ πλησμονῆσ τὸ σῶμα καὶ ταραχὰσ ἐμβάλλειν καὶ διαρροίασ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 7 12:1)
  • ἀναγκαῖον δὲ εἶναι ταύτασ τὰσ πόλεισ τυραννίδασ τε καὶ ὀλιγαρχίασ καὶ δημοκρατίασ μεταβαλλούσασ μηδέποτε λήγειν, δικαίου δὲ καὶ ἰσονόμου πολιτείασ τοὺσ ἐν αὐταῖσ δυναστεύοντασ μηδ’ ὄνομα ἀκούοντασ ἀνέχεσθαι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 22:1)

Synonyms

  1. kingly power

Related

Similar forms

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

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