despotate

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An area ruled by a despot (δεσπότης) in the late Byzantine Balkans (12th to 15th centuries). historical
    — Even before the great sultan Mehmed II, known as El Fatih (the Conqueror), took power in Turkey, the Serbian despotate had become the booty of the invaders.

词形变化

despotates plural

词源

From despot + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, here the concrete charge of it). Compare despotat.
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