autonomous

autonomous

English

Etymology

autonomy +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈtɒnəməs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔˈtɑnəməs/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑˈtɑnəməs/
• Rhymes: -ɒnəməs

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Adjective

autonomous (comparative more autonomous, superlative most autonomous)

1. Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
2. Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
3. (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) 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).

Synonyms

• (governing independently): sovereign, self-governing
• (acting on ones own behalf): selfstanding, self-directed

Antonyms

• heteronomous

Derived terms

• autonomously
• semiautonomous

Related terms

• autonomy

Translations

self-governing

Albanian: autonom (sq) Bulgarian: автономен (bg) (avtonomen), независим (bg) (nezavisim) Buryat: автономито (avtonomito), өөртөө заһаха (öörtöö zahaxa) Catalan: autònom (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 自治 (zh) (zìzhì) Czech: samosprávný, autonomní (cs) Dutch: autonoom (nl) Esperanto: aŭtonoma Evenki: автоно̄мнай (awtonōmnaj) Finnish: autonominen (fi), itsehallinnollinen French: autonome (fr) Galician: autónomo German: autonom (de) Greek: αυτόνομος (el) (aftónomos) Hindi: स्वायत्त (hi) (svāyatt) Hungarian: autonómia (hu) Ido: autonoma (io) Italian: autonomo (it) Japanese: 自治 (ja) (じち, jichi) Kalmyk: автономн (avtonomn) Kazakh: Arabic: اۋتونوميالى‎, اۋتونوميالىق‎ Cyrillic: автономиялы́ (avtonomïyalı́), автономиялы́қ (avtonomïyalı́q) Latin: aptonom (obsolete)

Khakas: автоном (avtonom) Korean: 자치 (ko) (jachi) Mongolian: Cyrillic: өөртөө засах (öörtöö zasah), автономит (mn) (avtonomit) Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ (öbertegen ǰasaqu) Norwegian: Bokmål: autonom (no), selvstyrt, sjølstyrt Nynorsk: autonom, sjølvstyrt Portuguese: autónomo (pt) (Portugal), autônomo (pt) (Brazil) Romanian: autonom (ro) Russian: автоно́мный (ru) (avtonómnyj) Serbo-Croatian: sȁmostālan (sh), àutonōman (sh) Spanish: autónomo (es) Tuvan: автономнуг (avtonomnug) Written Oirat: ᡄᡋᡄᠷᡄᡃᠨ ᠴᠠᠰᠠᡍᡇ (eberēn zasaxu) Xibe: ᠪᡝᠶᡝ ᡩᠠᠰᠠᡢᡤᠠ Yakut: автоно́мнай (avtonómnay), автономияла́ах (avtonomiyaláax) Yiddish: אויטאָנאָם‎ (oytonom), אויטאָנאָמיש‎ (oytonomish)

acting on one's own

Bulgarian: самостоятелен (bg) (samostojatelen) Catalan: autònom (ca) Finnish: itsenäinen (fi) Galician: autónomo Japanese: 自立した (jiritsu shita), 主体的な (shutaiteki na), 自主的な (ja) (jishuteki na) Norwegian: Bokmål: sjølstendig (no), selvstendig (no), autonom (no) Nynorsk: sjølvstendig, autonom

Persian: خودسر‎ (fa) (xodsar), خودرای‎ (fa) (xodrāy) Portuguese: autónomo (pt) (Portugal), autônomo (pt) (Brazil) Russian: самостоя́тельный (ru) (samostojátelʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: sȁmostālan (sh), nȅovisan (sh) Spanish: autónomo (es)

a verb form grammar of Celtic language

Irish: saor

See also

• autonomous area
• autonomous navigation