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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

  • οὕτω σήμερον αἱ τυραννίδεσ αἱ λοιπαὶ τῶν ἀρχόντων Περσῶν καὶ Μήδων ἀκούσασαι τὰ τῷ βασιλεῖ λεχθέντα ὑπ̓ αὐτῆσ, τολμήσουσιν ὁμοίωσ ἀτιμάσαι τοὺσ ἄνδρασ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 1:34)
  • ὧν ἁμαρτανομένων παρατροπαὶ καὶ ὑπερχύσεισ εἰσὶν αἱ λεγόμεναι τυραννίδεσ καὶ δυναστεῖαι καὶ ὀχλοκρατίαι· (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 3 4:1)
  • ὅτι οὐ ῥᾳδίωσ ἐθέλουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἄρχεσθαι, ἀλλὰ πολλαὶ μὲν δυναστεῖαι, πολλαὶ δὲ τυραννίδεσ κατελύθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν μὴ βουλομένων ἄρχεσθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 2 2:12)
  • ἰδίωμα τὸ μὴ μεταβάλλοντα τὴν ποιότητα τοῦ νοήματοσ οὕτωσ εἰσαγαγεῖν ἐν γένει πρῶτον, ὅπερ ἄν τισ πολιτικὸσ ἐποίησεν ἐξαίρων τὸν λόγον τῷ ἀξιώματι, οἱο͂ν ἔννοιά ποθ’ ἡμῖν ἐγένετο, ὁποῖον εἶναι συμβέβηκε τὸ κατὰ τὴν τῶν καλῶν φύσιν, εἶτα οὕτωσ τὸ κατ’ εἶδοσ, ὅσαι δημοκρατίαι καὶ ὅσαι τυραννίδεσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 5:2)
  • "τὰ δὲ νῦν πράγματα καθεστῶτα, περὶ ὧν ἐρωτῶσι τὸν θεόν, ἀγαπῶ μὲν ἔγωγε καὶ ἀσπάζομαι πολλὴ γὰρ εἰρήνη καὶ ἡσυχία, πέπαυται δὲ πόλεμοσ, καὶ πλάναι καὶ στάσεισ οὐκ εἰσὶν οὐδὲ τυραννίδεσ, οὐδ’ ἄλλα νοσήματα καὶ κακὰ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ὥσπερ πολυδυνάμων φαρμάκων χρῄζοντα καὶ περιττῶν. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 281)

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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