despotat

Unadapted borrowing from French despotat; equivalent to despot +‎ -ate (forms nouns denoting a rank or office). Compare despotate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛspətæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

despotat (plural despotats)

1. The government or domain of a despot.

   Synonym: despotate

   • 1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, Historical Essays - Volume III:

     In Northern Greece the Greek despotat of Epeiros died out, to leave us in a bewildering confusion of shifting powers

“despotat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• adoptest, post-date, postdate, spot date

Borrowed from French despotat. By surface analysis, despot +‎ -at.

despotat n (plural despotate)

1. despotate