despot

See also Despot

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɛs.pɒt/, /ˈdɛz.pɒt/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin despota, from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs, “lord, master, owner”), from the Proto-Indo-European phrase *déms pótis (“master of the house”).

Noun

despot (plural despots)

1. A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
2. A title awarded to senior members of the imperial family in the late Byzantine Empire, and claimed by various independent or semi-autonomous rulers in the Balkans (12th to 15th centuries)

Translations

ruler with absolute power; tyrant

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暴君 (cmn) (bàojūn), 霸王 (cmn) (bàwáng)

• Czech: despota (cs) m
• Esperanto: despoto (eo)
• Finnish: despootti (fi)
• French: despote (fr) m and f
• German: Despot (de) m
• Greek: δεσπότης (el) (despótis) m

• Hungarian: kényúr (hu), zsarnok (hu), despota (hu)
• Italian: despota, m
• Japanese: 暴君 (ja) (ぼうくん, bōkun)
• Korean: 폭군 (ko) (pokgun) (暴君 (ko))
• Russian: деспот (ru) (déspot) m
• Spanish: déspota (es) m
• Swedish: despot (sv) c

Derived terms

• despotate
• despotism

Anagrams

• depots
• dopest
• posted

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Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs, “lord, master”).

Noun

despot c (singular definite despoten, plural indefinite despoter)

1. despot

Synonyms

• tyran

Derived terms

• despoti n
• despotisk a
• despotisme c

Inflection

    Inflection of despot

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	despot	despoten	despoter	despoterne
genitive	despots	despotens	despoters	despoternes

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /děspot/
• Hyphenation: des‧pot

Noun

dèspot m (Cyrillic spelling дѐспот)

1. despot

Declension

    declension of despot

	singular	plural
nominative	despot	despoti
genitive	despota	despota
dative	despotu	despotima
accusative	despota	despote
vocative	despote	despoti
locative	despotu	despotima
instrumental	despotom	despotima

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Swedish

Noun

despot c

1. despot