despot

See also: Despot

English

Etymology

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From Middle French despote, from Old French despote, from Medieval Latin despota, from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs, “lord, master, owner”), from the Proto-Indo-European phrase *déms pótis (“master of the house”). Cognate with Sanskrit दम्पति (dámpati).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛs.pɒt/, /ˈdɛz.pɒt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛs.pət/

• Audio (Canada):

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Noun

despot (plural despots)

1. A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
2. (historical) 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)

Derived terms

• despotate
• despotism

Translations

ruler with absolute power; tyrant

• Albanian: despot (sq) m
• Arabic: طَاغٍ m (ṭāḡin) (indefinite), الطَاغِي m (aṭ-ṭāḡī) (definite), مُسْتَبِدّ (mustabidd), ظَالِم (ar) m (ẓālim)
• Armenian: բռնակալ (hy) (bṙnakal), բռնապետ (hy) (bṙnapet)
• Belarusian: дэ́спат m (déspat)
• Bulgarian: де́спот (bg) m (déspot)
• Catalan: dèspota m or f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: despota (cs) m
• Danish: despot c
• Dutch: despoot (nl) m
• Esperanto: despoto
• Estonian: despoot (et)
• Finnish: despootti (fi)
• French: despote (fr) m or f
• Georgian: დესპოტი (desṗoṭi)
• German: Despot (de) m
• Greek: δεσπότης (el) m (despótis)
• Hungarian: kényúr (hu), zsarnok (hu), despota (hu)
• Irish: forlámhaí m
• Italian: despota (it) m
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• Japanese: 暴君 (ja) (ぼうくん, bōkun)
• Korean: 폭군 (ko) (pokgun) (暴君 (ko))
• Lao: ທໍລະລາດ (thǭ la lāt), ທໍຣະຣາດ (thǭ ra rāt)
• Latin: tyrannus m
• Latvian: despots m
• Lithuanian: despotas m
• Macedonian: деспот m (despot)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: despot m

• Persian: مستبد (fa) (mostabedd)
• Polish: despota (pl) m
• Portuguese: déspota (pt) m or f
• Romanian: despot (ro) m
• Russian: де́спот (ru) m (déspot)
• Slovak: despota m
• Slovene: despot m
• Spanish: déspota (es) m or f
• Swedish: despot (sv) c
• Tajik: мустабид (mustabid)
• Thai: ทรราช (th) (tɔɔ-rá-râat)
• Ukrainian: де́спот m (déspot)
• Vietnamese: bạo quân (vi), bá vương (vi)

Anagrams

• T posed, T-posed, depots, dopest, dépôts, posted, ptosed, stoped

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Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

despot c (singular definite despoten, plural indefinite despoter)

1. despot

Inflection

Declension of despot

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

Synonyms

• tyran

Derived terms

• despoti n
• despotisk (adjective)
• despotisme c

Further reading

• “despot” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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