tyrannis

From Ancient Greek τυραννίς (turannís).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tyˈran.nis/, [tʏˈran.nɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tiˈran.nis/

tyrannis f (genitive tyrannidis); third declension

1. tyranny; arbitrary or despotic rule
   • 1313, Dante Alighieri, “Liber I [Book 1]”, in De monarchia [About monarchy]:

     Genus humanum solum imperante Monarcha, sui, et non alterius gratia, est: tunc enim solum Politiae diriguntur obliquae, democratiae scilicet, oligarchiae atque tyrannides, quae in servitute cogunt genus humanum.

     Only when the monarch rules, mankind exists for his own sake, and not of others: for only then are the twisted governments rightened, namely democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, which force mankind into slavery.

2. (by extension) the region ruled by a tyrant

Third declension.

• tyrannicē
• tyrannicus
• tyrannus

• English: tyranny

Inflected form of tyrannus (“tyrant, ruler”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tʏˈran.niːs/

tyrannīs

1. dative plural of tyrannus
2. ablative plural of tyrannus

• sic semper tyrannīs (Thus always to tyrants, shouted by John Wilkes Booth after assassinating Abraham Lincoln.)

• tyrannis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tyrannis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tyrannis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tyrannis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take upon oneself absolute power: imperium, regnum, tyrannidem occupare
    
  • to aspire to a despotism: tyrannidem concupiscere
    
  • to establish oneself as despot, tyrant by some means: tyrannidem sibi parere aliqua re