tyrannus

See also: Tyrannus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “absolute ruler”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tyˈran.nus/, [t̪ʏˈränːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tiˈran.nus/, [t̪iˈränːus]

Noun

tyrannus m (genitive tyrannī); second declension

1. ruler, monarch
2. tyrant, despot

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tyrannus	tyrannī
genitive	tyrannī	tyrannōrum
dative	tyrannō	tyrannīs
accusative	tyrannum	tyrannōs
ablative	tyrannō	tyrannīs
vocative	tyranne	tyrannī

Derived terms

• tyrannicē
• tyrannicīda
• tyrannicīdium

Related terms

• tyrannicus
• tyrannis
• tyrannoctonus
• tyrannopolīta

Descendants

• → Catalan: tirà
• → German: Tyrann
  • → Russian: тиран (tiran)
• → Irish: tíoránach
• Old French: tirant
  • French: tyran
  • → Middle English: tyrant, tyrante
    • English: tyrant
• ⇒ English: sic semper tyrannis (thus always to tyrants, shouted by John Wilkes Booth after assassinating Abraham Lincoln)
  • Norman: tyran
• Portuguese: tirano
• Romanian: tiran
• Spanish: tirano

References

• “tyrannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tyrannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tyrannus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tyrannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to establish some one as king, tyrant: aliquem regem, tyrannum constituere
    
• “tyrannus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “tyrannus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tyrannus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin