English edit

Etymology edit

French despotat; equivalent to despot +‎ -ate

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

despotat (plural despotats)

  1. The government or domain of a despot.
    • 1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, Historical Essays - Volume III:
      In Northern Greece the Greek despotat of Epeiros died out, to leave us in a bewildering confusion of shifting powers

References edit

despotat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French despotat. By surface analysis, despot +‎ -at.

Noun edit

despotat n (plural despotate)

  1. despotate

Declension edit