- Transliteration: Authenteo

- Phonetic: ow-then-teh'-o

- Definition:

1. one who with his own hands kills another or himself

2. one who acts on his own authority, autocratic

3. an absolute master

4. to govern, exercise dominion over one

- Origin: from a compound of G846" class="dictionary-topic-link">G846 and an obsolete hentes (a worker)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From a compound of G846" class="dictionary-topic-link">G846 and ἕντης hentē s (obsolete; a worker); to act of oneself that is (figuratively) dominate: - usurp authority over.