despote
French
noun
Definitions
- despot
- tyrant
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δεσπότης (master, lord, owner, ruler).
Origin
Ancient Greek
δεσπότης
Gloss
master, lord, owner, ruler
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
主
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- despota Latin
- despoot Dutch, Flemish
- despotique French
- despotiquement French
- δεσποτικός Ancient Greek
- δεσπότης Ancient Greek
- οἰκοδεσπότης Ancient Greek
- ἀδέσποτος Ancient Greek
- *dem- Proto-Indo-European
- *déms pótis Proto-Indo-European
- adespota Old Norse
- despot Danish
- despotisk Danish
- despote Old French
- despotic Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- δεσπότης Greek (modern)
- деспот Bulgarian