Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• αὐτοέντης ‎(autoéntēs)

Noun

αὐθέντης • ‎(authéntēs) m ‎(genitive αὐθέντου); first declension

1. a perpetrator of any act, especially that he commits a murder with his own hand
2. a suicide, a person who has intentionally killed himself
3. an absolute ruler, an autocrat

Inflection

Derived terms

• αὐθεντέω ‎(authentéō)
• αὐθεντία ‎(authentía)
• αὐθεντικός ‎(authentikós)

Descendants

• Greek: αφέντης m ‎(aféntis), αυθέντης m ‎(afthéntis)
  • Bashkir: әфәнде ‎(äfände)
  • English: effendi
  • Turkish: efendi

References

• αὐθέντης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αὐθέντης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «αὐθέντης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «αὐθέντης» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• «αὐθέντης» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • culprit idem, page 188.
  • fratricidal idem, page 343.
  • murderer idem, page 546.
  • slayer idem, page 783.
  • suicide idem, page 836.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill