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δεσπόζειν (despozein)

δεσπόζειν is an Ancient Greek form of δεσπόζω, meaning “to be lord; master, gain the mastery”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Ion 1036: τῷ τῶν ἐμῶν μέλλοντι δεσπόζειν δόμων.

All forms of δεσπόζω (conjugation 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.