different between tyrannus vs kingbird

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (túrannos, “absolute ruler”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ty?ran.nus/, [t????än??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ti?ran.nus/, [t?i???n?us]

Noun

tyrannus m (genitive tyrann?); second declension

1. ruler, monarch
2. tyrant, despot

   Sic semper tyrannis.

   Thus always to tyrants.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• tyrannic?
• tyrannic?da
• tyrannic?dium

Related terms

• tyrannicus
• tyrannis
• tyrannoctonus
• tyrannopol?ta

Descendants

References

• tyrannus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tyrannus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tyrannus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tyrannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• tyrannus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• tyrannus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tyrannus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

king +? bird

Noun

kingbird (plural kingbirds)

1. A group of large insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Tyrannus.

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