despot

From Middle French despote, from Old French despote, from Medieval Latin despota, from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs, “lord, master, owner”).^[1] Cognate with Sanskrit दम्पति (dámpati).

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

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despot (plural despots)

1. 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^[sic] utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.

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)

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

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

despot c (singular definite despoten, plural indefinite despoter)

1. despot

• tyran

• despoti n
• despotisk (adjective)
• despotisme c

• “despot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Greek δεσπότης (despótis).

despot m (plural despoți)

1. despot

• IPA^(key): /děspot/
• Hyphenation: des‧pot

dèspot m anim (Cyrillic spelling дѐспот)

1. despot

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (despótēs).

despot c

1. despot

• despoti
• despotisk
• despotism
• despotvälde

• despot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• despot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• despot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)