tyrannus
Latin
noun
Definitions
- ruler, monarch
- tyrant, despot
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τύραννος (tyrant, absolute ruler, master, sovereign, despot, usurper, king, lord, monarch).
Origin
Ancient Greek
τύραννος
Gloss
tyrant, absolute ruler, master, sovereign, despot, usurper, king, lord, monarch
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
主
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tyrannicida Latin
- tyrannicidium Latin
- Tyrann German
- Tyrannei German
- Tyrannenmörder German
- tyrannisieren German
- tiran Dutch, Flemish
- тиран Russian
- tiranizar Spanish, Castilian
- tirano Spanish, Castilian
- tiranía Spanish, Castilian
- tiránico Spanish, Castilian
- τυραννέω Ancient Greek
- τυραννίς Ancient Greek
- τυραννεύω Ancient Greek
- τύραννος Ancient Greek
- tyrann Norwegian Bokmål
- tirano Portuguese
- tyran Polish
- tyranka Polish
- tyranozaur Polish
- tyrann Norwegian Nynorsk
- tyranne Middle English
- tyraunt Middle English
- tyran Danish
- tirant Old French
- tyrant Old French
- tirana Esperanto
- tirano Esperanto
- tyran Norman
- tirano Old Portuguese
- Zhuchengtyrannus Chinese
- ⲧⲩⲣⲁⲛⲟⲥ Coptic
- súsk'i Zuni