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autonomous

adj
/ɔːˈtɒnəməs/UK/ɔˈtɑnəməs/US

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) ▲ 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-der. Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English autonomous From autonomy + -ous.

  1. derived from -ous English -ous English autonomous From autonomy + -ous
  2. derived from -ōsus Old French -usbor
  3. derived from autonomy Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der
  4. derived from *nem-der✻
  5. derived from *sóder✻
  6. derived from *h₂ewder✻

Definitions

  1. Governing itself independently.

    • an autonomous territory

  2. 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."

  3. Sentient

    Sentient; self-aware.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Acting on one's own or independently

      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.

    2. Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent

      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).

The neighborhood

Derived

autonomous community, autonomously, autonomousness, autonomous oblast, autonomous okrug, autonomous prefecture, autonomous region, autonomous sensory meridian response, autonomous vehicle, autonowashing, nonautonomous, semiautonomous, superautonomous

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autonomous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA