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autonomous
- /ɔːˈtɒnəməs/ UK
- /ɔˈtɑnəməs/ US
- /ɑˈtɑnəməs/ Atlantic Canada, US, cot caught merger
- /ɒˈtɒnəməs/ Boston, Canada, Maine
- /oːˈtɔn.ə.məs/ Australia
- [oːˈtɔ̟n.ə.məs] New Zealand
Sounds like autonymous · Rhymes with -ɒnəməs
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew
Proto-Indo-European *tó-
Proto-Hellenic *autós
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 *-ŏ̄dsos?
Old Latin -ōssus
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English autonomous
From autonomy + -ous.
adjective more autonomous · most autonomous
- Governing itself independently. an autonomous territory
- Of or relating to a territory that governs itself independently. "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."
- Sentient; self-aware.
- Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. 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.
- 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).
