de spotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɛs.pɒt/, /ˈdɛz.pɒt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdɛs.pət/

名詞

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 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)

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アナグラム

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