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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

  • τάξαι δὲ μισθόν, πλὴν ἐμῆσ τυραννίδοσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 1:2)
  • οὐ σῆσ ἐρῶμεν πολιόχου τυραννίδοσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 1:3)
  • καίτοι σε μικρᾶσ ἐκ τυραννίδοσ μέγαν Θρῃκῶν ἄνακτα τῇδ’ ἔθηκ’ ἐγὼ χερί, ὅτ’ ἀμφὶ Πάγγαιόν τε Παιόνων τε γῆν Θρῃκῶν ἀρίστοισ ἐμπεσὼν κατὰ στόμα ἔρρηξα πέλτην, σοὶ δὲ δουλώσασ λεὼν παρέσχον· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambics11)
  • πολλῆσ γὰρ ἄρχω κἀνθάδ’ ὢν τυραννίδοσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 1:9)
  • τὸ δ’ ὅλον οἱ δῆμοι οὐκ ἐξετάζοντεσ ὁποῖόσ τισ ὁ τοῖσ πράγμασιν ἐφεστώσ ἐστιν, εἴτε δίκαιοσ εἴτε ἄδικοσ, αὐτὸ ἁπλῶσ τὸ τῆσ τυραννίδοσ ὄνομα μισοῦσι καὶ τὸν τύραννον, κἂν Αἰακὸσ ἢ Μίνωσ ἢ Ῥαδάμανθυσ ᾖ, ὁμοίωσ ἐξ ἅπαντοσ ἀνελεῖν σπεύδουσιν, τοὺσ μὲν πονηροὺσ αὐτῶν πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν τιθέμενοι, τοὺσ δὲ χρηστοὺσ τῇ κοινωνίᾳ τῆσ προσηγορίασ τῷ ὁμοίῳ μίσει συμπεριλαμβάνοντεσ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 7:1)

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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