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English
Etymology
From Middle French despote, from Old French despote, from Medieval Latin despota, from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs, “lord, master, owner”). Cognate with Sanskrit दम्पति (dámpati).
Pronunciation
Noun
despot (plural despots)
- A ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.
- (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
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), طَاغِيَة f (ṭāḡiya)
- Armenian: բռնակալ (hy) (bṙnakal), բռնապետ (hy) (bṙnapet)
- Belarusian: дэ́спат m (déspat)
- Bulgarian: де́спот (bg) m (déspot)
- Catalan: dèspota (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: please add this translation if you can
- 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, Despotin f
- Greek: δεσπότης (el) m (despótis)
- Hebrew: רודן (he) m (rodán)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kényúr (hu), zsarnok (hu), despota (hu)
- Irish: forlámhaí m
- Italian: despota (it) m
- Japanese: 暴君 (ja) (ぼうくん, bōkun)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 폭군(暴君) (ko) (pokgun)
- Lao: ທໍລະລາດ (thǭ la lāt), ທໍຣະຣາດ (thǭ ra rāt)
- Latin: tyrannus m
- Latvian: despots m
- Lithuanian: despotas m
- Macedonian: деспот m (despot)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- 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)
- Turkish: despot (tr), diktatör (tr), müstebit (tr), mütegallibe (tr), tiran (tr), zorba (tr)
- Ukrainian: де́спот m (déspot)
- Vietnamese: bạo quân (vi), bá vương (vi)
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References
- ^ Fortson, Benjamin W. (2004) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, first edition, Oxford: Blackwell
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs, “lord, master”).
Noun
despot c (singular definite despoten, plural indefinite despoter)
- despot
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek δεσπότης (despótis).
Noun
despot m (plural despoți)
- despot
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /děspot/
- Hyphenation: des‧pot
Noun
dèspot m (Cyrillic spelling дѐспот)
- despot
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs).
Noun
despot c
- despot
Declension
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