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)
• Azerbaijani: muxtar
• 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)
• Danish: autonom (da), selvstyret
• 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)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: autonomo (it)
• Japanese: 自治 (ja) (じち, jichi)
• Kalmyk: автономн (avtonomn)
• Kazakh:

  Arabic: اۋتونوميالى, اۋتونوميالىق

  Cyrillic: автономиялы́ (avtonomiälý), автономиялы́қ (avtonomiälýq)

  Latin: aptonom (obsolete)

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• Khakas: автоном (avtonom)
• Korean: 자치 (ko) (jachi)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: өөртөө засах (öörtöö zasax), 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 (avtonomiyaláaq)
• Yiddish: אויטאָנאָם (oytonom), אויטאָנאָמיש (oytonomish)

acting on one's own

• Bulgarian: самостоятелен (bg) (samostojatelen)
• Catalan: autònom (ca)
• Danish: selvstændig (da), autonom (da)
• Finnish: itsenäinen (fi)
• Galician: autónomo
• Interlingue:
• 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

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• 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
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See also

• autonomous area
• autonomous navigation