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==Etymology==
The English noun ''[[:wikt:tyrant|tyrant]]'' appears in [[Middle English]] use, via [[Old French]], from the 1290s.
The word derives from [[Latin]] ''tyrannus'', meaning "illegitimate ruler", and this in turn from the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] {{lang|grc|τύραννος}} ''tyrannos'' "monarch, ruler of a [[polis]]"; ''tyrannos'' in its turn has a [[Pre-Greek]] origin, perhaps from [[Lydian language|Lydian]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/tyrant|title=Etymology of "tyrant" by etymonline|website=etymonline}}</ref><ref>[[Robert S. P. Beekes|R. S. P. Beekes]], ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, pp. 1519–20.</ref> The final ''-t'' arises in Old French by association with the present participles in ''-ant''.<ref>''tyrant'', ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', 2nd edition</ref>