adespota

See also: adéspota

English edit

From New Latin adespota (“anonymous literary works”), substantivised neuter plural of the adjective adespotos (“anonymous; undedicated”, of books), from Ancient Greek ἀδέσποτος (adéspotos, “anonymous”, of rumours or writings), from ἀ- (a-, “without”, alpha privative) + δεσπότης (despótēs, “master”). Compare despot.

adespota pl (plural only)

(bibliography) Literary works not attributed to (or claimed by) an author. (Originally used as a title of collections of anonymous Greek poetry.)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:adespota.

anonymous literary works

Substantivisation of the neuter plural of adespotos in elliptical use for scrīpta adespota (“anonymous texts”).

adespota n pl (genitive adespotōrum); second declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type), plural only.

Regularly declined forms of adespotos and adespotus.

adespota: (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈdes.po.ta/, [äˈd̪ɛs̠pɔt̪ä]
adespota: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdes.po.ta/, [äˈd̪ɛspot̪ä]
adespotā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈdes.po.taː/, [äˈd̪ɛs̠pɔt̪äː]
adespotā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdes.po.ta/, [äˈd̪ɛspot̪ä]

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