Word Origin Summary

Τύραννος is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• タイラント

  Japanese · borrowed from

• tyran

  Polish · derived from

• tyran

  Norman · derived from

• tyraunt

  Middle English · derived from

• tiranosaurio

  Spanish · derived from

• ⲧⲩⲣⲁⲛⲟⲥ

  Coptic · borrowed from

• tirano

  Esperanto · derived from

• tiran

  Romanian · derived from

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