δέσποτʼ (despot)

δέσποτʼ is an Ancient Greek form of δεσπότης, meaning “master, lord”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.27: … . Ἄμφις Ἀμφικράτει· τὸ δʼ ἀγαθὸν ὅ τι ποτʼ ἐστίν, οὗ σὺ τυγχάνειν μέλλεις διὰ ταύτην, ἧττον οἶδα τοῦτʼ ἐγώ, ὦ δέσποτʼ, ἢ τὸ Πλάτωνος ἀγαθόν.—πρόσεχε δή.

All forms of δεσπότης (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.