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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τυραννίς τυραννίδε τυραννίδες
Genitive τυραννίδος τυραννίδοιν τυραννίδων
Dative τυραννίδι τυραννίδοιν τυραννίσιν*
Accusative τυραννίδα τυραννίδε τυραννίδας
Vocative τυραννί τυραννίδε τυραννίδες

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

  • καὶ τοῦτο ἐγένετο τῷ βίῳ εἰσ ἔνεδρον, ὅτι ἢ συμφορᾷ ἢ τυραννίδι δουλεύσαντεσ ἄνθρωποι τὸ ἀκοινώνητον ὄνομα λίθοισ καὶ ξύλοισ περιέθεσαν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:21)
  • οὐ κρατεῖσθ’ ἐκ βαρβάρων, οὔτ’ ἐσ δόρυ σταθέντεσ, οὐ τυραννίδι. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:25)
  • ὑμεῖσ δὲ ἀνάσχεσθέ μου, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, πρὸσ ὀλίγον τὰ ἐν τῇ τυραννίδι καίπερ εἰδόσιν ὑμῖν ἀκριβῶσ διηγουμένου· (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 3:4)
  • ἀλλὰ ταῦθ’ ὕφηναν ἡμῖν ἄνδρεσ ἐπὶ τυραννίδι. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees2)
  • ’οὗτοσ ὀψωνεῖν ἐοίχ’ ἅνθρωποσ ἐπὶ τυραννίδι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, trochees 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. kingly power

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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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