英语词汇despot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	despot
词源	despot [M16th] This comes, via French and medieval Latin, from Greek despotēs ‘master, lord, absolute ruler’ (in modern Greek used for a bishop). Originally, after the Turkish conquest of Constantinople, the term denoted a petty Christian ruler under the Turkish empire. The current sense dates from the late 18th century.
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