tyrannus

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tʏˈran.nus/

tyrannus m (genitive tyrannī); second declension

1. ruler, monarch
2. tyrant, despot

   Sic semper tyrannis.

   Thus always to tyrants.

Second declension.

• tyrannicē
• tyrannicīda
• tyrannicīdium

• tyrannicus
• tyrannis
• tyrannoctonus
• tyrannopolīta

• 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, 1883–1887)
• tyrannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to establish some one as king, tyrant: aliquem regem, tyrannum constituere
    
• tyrannus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• 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