τύραννος (tírannos)

English: tyrant

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Linguistic Information

Word Typenoun
Gendermasculine
Casenominative
NumberSingular

About τύραννος

As a noun, τύραννος is of the masculine gender and is in the nominative case in Greek grammar. It can help you understand sentence structure and word forms better.

Definitions & Examples

  • noun:
    tyrant
  • noun:
    (historical) tyrant (an absolute ruler in ancient Greece)

Declension Table

masculine noun

CaseSingularPlural
nominativeτύραννοςτύραννοι
genitiveτυράννουτυράννων
accusativeτύραννοτυράννους
vocativeτύραννετύραννοι

Greek nouns and adjectives change form based on case (role in sentence) and number. These forms show how τύραννος appears in different grammatical contexts.