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- Ancient Greek · derived fromαὐτοκέφαλος
- English todayautocephalous
From Ancient Greek αὐτοκέφαλος (autoképhalos), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). By surface analysis, auto- + -cephalous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.