δεσπότην (despoten)

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

Found 281 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.77.1: … ξυστραφέντες βουλόμεθα προθυμότερον δεῖξαι αὐτοῖς ὅτι οὐκ Ἴωνες τάδε εἰσὶν οὐδ’ Ἑλλησπόντιοι καὶ νησιῶται, οἳ δεσπότην ἢ Μῆδον ἢ ἕνα γέ τινα αἰεὶ μεταβάλλοντες δουλοῦνται, ἀλλὰ Δωριῆς ἐλεύθεροι ἀπ’ αὐτονόμου τῆς Πελοποννήσου τὴν …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 28·3: … ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς τῶν δακρύων ἐκφέρεται; οὐκ ἀνανήψομεν; οὐχ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν γενησόμεθα; οὐκ ἀποβλέψομεν πρὸς τὸν κοινὸν Δεσπότην, ὃς ἕκαστον τῶν ἁγίων τῇ ἰδίᾳ γενεᾷ ἐπιτρέψας ὑπηρετήσασθαι, τοῖς καθήκουσι χρόνοις πρὸς ἑαυτὸν πάλιν ἀνεκαλέ …

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.