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英語單詞

despot是什么意思

despot

英 ['desp?t] 美 ['d?spɑt]
  • n. 專制君主,暴君;獨裁者
  • n. (Despot)人名;(塞、羅)德斯波特

助記提示


1. potent => despot.
2. domestic + potent => despot.

中文詞源


despot 暴君

來自拉丁語despota, 來自PIE*dems-pota, 一家之主,dems, 家,詞源同domicile. -pot, 權力,權威,詞源同possible, potent. 引申詞義絕對權力,暴君。

英文詞源


despot
despot: [16] The ultimate source of despot is Greek despótēs ‘lord’. It is related to Sanskrit dampati ‘master of the house’, and both probably go back to an Indo-European compound formed from *domo- ‘house’ (source of Latin domus ‘house’, and hence of English domestic) and another element related to Latin potis ‘able’ and English power. (Latin dominus ‘lord’, a derivative of domus ‘house’ and originally meaning ‘master of the house’, is a semantically parallel formation.) Greek despótēs was used for ‘lord, master’ or ‘ruler’ in various contexts, with no particular pejorative connotation (in modern Greek it means ‘bishop’).

But most rulers in ancient times enjoyed absolute power, and so eventually the word (which entered English via medieval Latin despota and early modern French despot) came to mean ‘tyrannical ruler’; this sense became firmly established at the time of the French Revolution.

=> domestic, dominion
despot (n.)
1560s, "absolute ruler," from Old French despot (14c.), from Medieval Latin despota, from Greek despotes "master of a household, lord, absolute ruler," from PIE *dems-pota- "house-master;" for first element see domestic (adj.); second element cognate with Latin potis, potens (see potent).

Faintly pejorative in Greek, progressively more so as used in various languages for Roman emperors, Christian rulers of Ottoman provinces, and Louis XVI during the French Revolution. The female equivalent was despoina "lady, queen, mistress," source of the proper name Despina.

雙語例句


1. The despot claimed to be the chosen instrument of divine providence.
專制者聲稱自己是上天選定的統治工具.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. She rules her family like a real despot.
她治家簡直像個暴君.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. He was a despot with a heart of granite.
他是個鐵石心腸的暴君.

來自辭典例句

4. He was a tyrant, a despot.
他是暴君, 一個專制的皇帝.

來自辭典例句

5. The local despot trenched on the temple's property.
當地惡霸侵占了寺廟的廟產.

來自辭典例句

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