autonomous

autonom

Governing itself independently

• The private colleges and universities of the United States are autonomous.

  Die privaten Colleges und Universitäten der Vereinigten Staaten sind selbstständig.

  Tatoeba · AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR

• This is an autonomous machine.

  Tatoeba · marcelostockle · CC BY 2.0 FR

autonom

Of or relating to a territory that governs itself independently

autonom

Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules

autonom

Sentient; self-awareselten

autonom

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) — Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agentselten