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Proper noun

Tyrannus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Tyrannidae – the tyrant flycatchers.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Passeriformes - order; Tyranni - suborder; Tyrannides - infraorder; Tyrannida - parvorder; Tyrannidae - family

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

Noun

tyrannus m ‎(genitive tyrannī); second declension

1. ruler, monarch
2. tyrant, despot

   Sic semper tyrannis.

   Thus always to tyrants.

Inflection

Second declension.

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tyrannus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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