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  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Adjective
    • 1.3.1 Antonyms
    • 1.3.2 Derived terms
    • 1.3.3 Related terms
    • 1.3.4 Translations
    • 1.3.5 See also

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English

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Etymology

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From autonomy +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒnəməs
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːˈtɒnəməs/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ɔˈtɑnəməs/, (cot–caught merger) /ɑ-/

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• (Indic) IPA(key): /əˈʈɔnəməs/
• (weak vowel merger) Homophone: autonymous

Adjective

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autonomous (comparative more autonomous, superlative most autonomous)

1. Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently. Synonyms: sovereign, self-governing
2. Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. Synonyms: self-standing, self-directed
   • 2022 October 4, Soumya Karlamangla, “Behind the Story: Navigating San Francisco in a Driverless Car”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 21 October 2022: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.
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).

Antonyms

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• heteronomous

Derived terms

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

Related terms

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• autonomy

Translations

[edit] self-governing — see also independent

Albanian: autonom (sq) Arabic: اِسْتِقْلَالِيّ (istiqlāliyy) Armenian: ինքնավար (hy) (inkʻnavar) Asturian: autónomu Azerbaijani: muxtar Belarusian: аўтано́мны (awtanómny) Bulgarian: автоно́мен (bg) (avtonómen) Buryat: автономито (avtonomito), өөртөө заһаха (öörtöö zahaxa) Catalan: autònom (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 自治 (zh) (zìzhì) Czech: samosprávný (cs), autonomní (cs) Danish: autonom (da), selvstyret Dutch: autonoom (nl) Esperanto: aŭtonoma Evenki: автоно̄мнай (awtonōmnaj) Extremaduran: autónoma Finnish: autonominen (fi), itsehallinnollinen (fi) French: autonome (fr) Galician: autónomo (gl) Georgian: ავტონომიური (avṭonomiuri) German: autonom (de) Greek: αυτόνομος (el) (aftónomos) Hebrew: אוֹטוֹנוֹמִי (aotonómi) Hindi: स्वायत्त (hi) (svāyatt) Hungarian: autonómia (hu) Ido: autonoma (io) Indonesian: otonom (id) Irish: féinrialaitheach, neamhspleách Italian: autonomo (it), indipendente (it) Japanese: 自治 (ja) (じち, jichi), 自主的な (ja) (じしゅてきな, jishuteki na) Kalmyk: автономн (avtonomn) Kazakh: автономиялы (avtonomiäly), автономиялық (avtonomiälyq) Khakas: автоном (avtonom) Korean: 자치(自治) (ko) (jachi), 자주적(自主的) (ko) (jajujeok) Kyrgyz: автономиялык (avtonomiyalık) Macedonian: автономен (avtonomen) Malay: berautonomi Mongolian: Cyrillic: өөртөө засах (öörtöö zasax), автономит (mn) (avtonomit) Mongolian: ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ (öbertegen ǰasaqu) Norwegian: Bokmål: autonom (no), selvstyrt, sjølstyrt Nynorsk: autonom, sjølvstyrt Persian: مختار (fa) (moxtâr) Polish: autonomiczny (pl) Portuguese: autónomo (pt) (Portugal), autônomo (pt) (Brazil) Romanian: autonom (ro) Russian: автоно́мный (ru) (avtonómnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: са̏моста̄лан, а̀утоно̄ман Roman: sȁmostālan (sh), àutonōman (sh) Slovak: samosprávny, autonómny (sk) Slovene: avtonomen, samostojen Spanish: autónomo (es) Swedish: autonom (sv), självstyrande Tajik: мухтор (muxtor) Tatar: автоном (awtonom) Turkish: otonom (tr) Tuvan: автономнуг (avtonomnug) Ukrainian: автоно́мний (uk) (avtonómnyj) Uzbek: avtonomiyali (uz), muxtor (uz) Vietnamese: tự trị (vi) Written Oirat: ᡄᡋᡄᠷᡄᡃᠨᠴᠠᠰᠠᡍᡇ (eberēn zasaxu) Xibe: ᠪᡝᠶᡝᡩᠠᠰᠠᡢᡤᠠ Yakut: автоно́мнай (avtonómnay), автономияла́ах (avtonomiyaláaq) Yiddish: אויטאָנאָם (oytonom), אויטאָנאָמיש (oytonomish) Zhuang: swci

acting on one's own

Belarusian: самасто́йны (be) (samastójny) Bulgarian: самостоя́телен (bg) (samostojátelen) Catalan: autònom (ca) Danish: selvstændig (da), autonom (da) Finnish: itsenäinen (fi) Galician: autónomo (gl) Hindi: आत्मनिर्भर (ātmanirbhar), स्वावलंबी (hi) (svāvlambī) Indonesian: otonom (id) Irish: féinriartha, neamhspleách Japanese: 自立した (ja) (じりつした, jiritsu shita), 主体的な (ja) (shutaiteki na), 自主的な (ja) (じしゅてきな, jishuteki na) Malay: berautonomi Norwegian: Bokmål: sjølstendig (no), selvstendig (no), autonom (no) Nynorsk: sjølvstendig, autonom Persian: خودسر (fa) (xodsar), خودرای (fa) (xodrây) Polish: autonomiczny (pl), samodzielny (pl) Portuguese: autónomo (pt) (Portugal), autônomo (pt) (Brazil) Russian: самостоя́тельный (ru) (samostojátelʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: са̏моста̄лан, не̏овисан Roman: sȁmostālan (sh), nȅovisan (sh) Slovene: samostojen Spanish: autónomo (es) Swedish: självständig (sv) Ukrainian: самості́йний (samostíjnyj)

a verb form grammar of Celtic language

Irish: saor

See also

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• autonomous area

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