αὐτονομία

See also: αυτονομία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αὐτόνομος (autónomos, “autonomous, independent”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, “-y, -ia”, nominal suffix), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self”) +‎ νόμος (nómos, “usage, custom; law, ordinance”) +‎ -ος (-os, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /au̯.to.no.mí.aː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aʍ.to.noˈmi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aɸ.to.noˈmi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /af.to.noˈmi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /af.to.noˈmi.a/

Noun

αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ • (autonomíā) f (genitive αὐτονομῐ́ᾱς); first declension

autonomy, independence, freedom to use its own laws
1. dogmatism

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Inflection

First declension of ἡ αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ; τῆς αὐτονομῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ hē autonomíā	τὼ αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ tṑ autonomíā	αἱ αὐτονομῐ́αι hai autonomíai
Genitive	τῆς αὐτονομῐ́ᾱς tês autonomíās	τοῖν αὐτονομῐ́αιν toîn autonomíain	τῶν αὐτονομῐῶν tôn autonomiôn
Dative	τῇ αὐτονομῐ́ᾳ têi autonomíāi	τοῖν αὐτονομῐ́αιν toîn autonomíain	ταῖς αὐτονομῐ́αις taîs autonomíais
Accusative	τὴν αὐτονομῐ́ᾱν tḕn autonomíān	τὼ αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ tṑ autonomíā	τᾱ̀ς αὐτονομῐ́ᾱς tā̀s autonomíās
Vocative	αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ autonomíā	αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ autonomíā	αὐτονομῐ́αι autonomíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

αὐτονομέομαι (autonoméomai)

Descendants

→ English: autonomy
Greek: αυτονομία f (aftonomía)
→ Russian: автоно́мия (avtonómija)

References

“αὐτονομία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“αὐτονομία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
αὐτονομία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
αὐτονομία in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- autonomy idem, page 54.
- freedom idem, page 344.
- independence idem, page 432.
- integrity idem, page 448.
- liberty idem, page 488.