δέσποτα (despota)

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

Found 170 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 5.10: οὐδὲ γὰρ Εὐμάρᾳ τῷ δεσπότᾳ ἦς τι ἐνεύδειν.

Euripides, Cyclops 250: τὰ καινά γ’ ἐκ τῶν ἠθάδων, ὦ δέσποτα,

New Testament, Acts 4.24: οἱ δὲ ἀκούσαντες ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἦραν φωνὴν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν καὶ εἶπαν Δέσποτα, σὺ ὁ ποιήσας τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ πάντα

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.