autonomous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?
Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)
Proto-Indo-European *nem-der.
Proto-Indo-European *németi
Proto-Hellenic *némō
Ancient Greek νέμω (némō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos)
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Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek αὐτόνομος (autónomos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek αὐτονομῐ́ᾱ (autonomĭ́ā)bor.
English autonomy
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English autonomous
From autonomy + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more autonomous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most autonomous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Governing itself independently.
pos: adj
examples: an autonomous territory
gloss: Of or relating to a territory that governs itself independently.
pos: adj
examples: "Thank you, Louis," interrupted Carrados. "It is very nice to learn that. But I am really going to Kingsmouth because there's a man there—a curate—who has the second best private collection in Europe of autonomous coins of Thessaly."
gloss: Sentient; self-aware.
pos: adj
gloss: Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
pos: adj
examples: Though Cade has for years reported on the development of autonomous vehicles, test drives usually have so-called safety drivers who ride along and can take over in case something goes wrong.
gloss: Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
pos: adj
Antonyms: heteronomous
Related words: autonomic
autonomy
autonomous area
Derived words: autonomous community
autonomously
autonomousness
autonomous oblast
autonomous okrug
autonomous prefecture
autonomous region
autonomous sensory meridian response
autonomous vehicle
autonowashing
nonautonomous
semiautonomous
superautonomous
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: autonom
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتِقْلَالِيّ
roman: istiqlāliyy
lang: Armenian
word: ինքնավար
roman: inkʻnavar
lang: Asturian
word: autónomu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: muxtar
lang: Belarusian
word: аўтано́мны
roman: awtanómny
lang: Bulgarian
word: автоно́мен
roman: avtonómen
lang: Buryat
word: автономито
roman: avtonomito
lang: Buryat
word: өөртөө заһаха
roman: öörtöö zahaxa
lang: Catalan
word: autònom
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自治
roman: zìzhì
lang: Czech
word: samosprávný
lang: Czech
word: autonomní
lang: Danish
word: autonom
lang: Danish
word: selvstyret
lang: Dutch
word: autonoom
lang: Esperanto
word: aŭtonoma
lang: Evenki
word: автоно̄мнай
roman: awtonōmnaj
lang: Extremaduran
word: autónoma
lang: Finnish
word: autonominen
lang: Finnish
word: itsehallinnollinen
lang: French
word: autonome
lang: Galician
word: autónomo
lang: Georgian
word: ავტონომიური
roman: avṭonomiuri
lang: German
word: autonom
lang: Greek
word: αυτόνομος
roman: aftónomos
lang: Hebrew
word: אוֹטוֹנוֹמִי
roman: aotonómi
lang: Hindi
word: स्वायत्त
roman: svāyatt
lang: Hungarian
word: autonómia
lang: Ido
word: autonoma
lang: Indonesian
word: otonom
lang: Irish
word: féinrialaitheach
lang: Irish
word: neamhspleách
lang: Italian
word: autonomo
lang: Italian
word: indipendente
lang: Japanese
word: 自治
roman: jichi
lang: Japanese
word: 自主的な
roman: jishuteki na
lang: Kalmyk
word: автономн
roman: avtonomn
lang: Kazakh
word: автономиялы
roman: avtonomiäly
lang: Kazakh
word: автономиялық
roman: avtonomiälyq
lang: Khakas
word: автоном
roman: avtonom
lang: Korean
word: 자치
roman: jachi
lang: Korean
word: 자주적
roman: jajujeok
lang: Kyrgyz
word: автономиялык
roman: avtonomiyalık
lang: Macedonian
word: автономен
roman: avtonomen
lang: Malay
word: berautonomi
lang: Mongolian
word: өөртөө засах
roman: öörtöö zasax
lang: Mongolian
word: автономит
roman: avtonomit
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ
roman: öbertegen ǰasaqu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: autonom
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: selvstyrt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sjølstyrt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: autonom
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sjølvstyrt
lang: Persian
word: مختار
roman: moxtâr
lang: Polish
word: autonomiczny
lang: Portuguese
word: autónomo
lang: Portuguese
word: autônomo
lang: Romanian
word: autonom
lang: Russian
word: автоно́мный
roman: avtonómnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: са̏моста̄лан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: а̀утоно̄ман
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȁmostālan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: àutonōman
lang: Slovak
word: samosprávny
lang: Slovak
word: autonómny
lang: Slovene
word: avtonomen
lang: Slovene
word: samostojen
lang: Southern Altai
word: автоном
roman: avtonom
lang: Spanish
word: autónomo
lang: Swedish
word: autonom
lang: Swedish
word: självstyrande
lang: Tajik
word: мухтор
roman: muxtor
lang: Tatar
word: автоном
roman: awtonom
lang: Turkish
word: otonom
lang: Tuvan
word: автономнуг
roman: avtonomnug
lang: Ukrainian
word: автоно́мний
roman: avtonómnyj
lang: Uzbek
word: avtonomiyali
lang: Uzbek
word: muxtor
lang: Vietnamese
word: tự trị
lang: Written Oirat
word: ᡄᡋᡄᠷᡄᡃᠨ ᠴᠠᠰᠠᡍᡇ
roman: eberēn zasaxu
lang: Xibe
word: ᠪᡝᠶᡝ ᡩᠠᠰᠠᡢᡤᠠ
lang: Yakut
word: автоно́мнай
roman: avtonómnay
lang: Yakut
word: автономияла́ах
roman: avtonomiyaláaq
lang: Yiddish
word: אויטאָנאָם
roman: oytonom
lang: Yiddish
word: אויטאָנאָמיש
roman: oytonomish
lang: Zhuang
word: swci