despotat
English
editEtymology
editFrom French despotat; equivalent to despot + -ate.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdespotat (plural despotats)
- 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.
Anagrams
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French despotat. By surface analysis, despot + -at.
Noun
editdespotat n (plural despotate)
Declension
editDeclension of despotat
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) despotat | despotatul | (niște) despotate | despotatele |
genitive/dative | (unui) despotat | despotatului | (unor) despotate | despotatelor |
vocative | despotatule | despotatelor |
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