tyrannus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “absolute ruler”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tyˈran.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tiˈran.nus] === Noun === tyrannus m (genitive tyrannī); second declension ruler, monarch tyrant, despot ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== tyrannicē tyrannicīda tyrannicīdium ==== Related terms ==== tyrannicus tyrannis tyrannoctonus tyrannopolīta ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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. “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