αὐτοκρατία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From αὐτο- (auto-) +‎ -κρατία (-kratía)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /af.to.kraˈti.a/

• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /af.to.kraˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /af.to.kraˈti.a/

Noun

αὐτοκρατία • (autokratía) f (genitive αὐτοκρατίας); first declension

1. (Byzantine) autocracy, empire

Declension

First declension of ἡ αὐτοκρατίᾱ; τῆς αὐτοκρατίᾱς (Byzantine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ἡ αὐτοκρατίᾱ hē autokratíā	αἱ αὐτοκρατίαι hai autokratíai
Genitive	τῆς αὐτοκρατίᾱς tês autokratíās	τῶν αὐτοκρατιῶν tôn autokratiôn
Dative	τῇ αὐτοκρατίᾳ têi autokratíāi	ταῖς αὐτοκρατίαις taîs autokratíais
Accusative	τὴν αὐτοκρατίᾱν tḕn autokratíān	τᾱ̀ς αὐτοκρατίᾱς tā̀s autokratíās
Vocative	αὐτοκρατίᾱ autokratíā	αὐτοκρατίαι autokratíai

Descendants

Descendants

• → Asturian: autocracia
• → Catalan: autocràcia
• → Belarusian: аўтакра́тыя (aŭtakrátyja)
• → Dutch: autocratie
  • → Indonesian: autokrasi
• → English: autocracy
  • → Malay: autokrasi
• → Galician: autocracia
• → Georgian: ავტოკრატია (avṭoḳraṭia)
• → Italian: autocrazia
• → Polish: autokracja
• → Portuguese: autocracia
• → Russian: автокра́тия (avtokrátija)
• → Spanish: autocracia
• → Ukrainian: автокра́тія (avtokrátija)

See also

• αὐτοκράτεια (autokráteia, “self-control”) (Classical Attic)

Further reading

• αὐτοκρατία 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