adespotos

From the Ancient Greek ἀδέσποτος (adéspotos, “without master or owner”, of rumours or writings “anonymous”, “ungovernable”).

• adespotus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈdes.po.tos/, [äˈd̪ɛs̠pɔt̪ɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdes.po.tos/, [äˈd̪ɛspot̪os]

adespotos (feminine adespotos or adespota, neuter adespoton); second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type) or first/second-declension adjective (Greek-type) (New Latin)

1. (of books) masterless
   1. without specifying an author, anonymous
   2. without specifying a dedicatee, undedicated
2. (in general) ownerless
   • 1705, Jeremias Steyr, Dissertatio Juridica de Jure Principis circa Adespota, […], pages 4, 11:

     […] liber adespotus dicitur […] In Germania ergo ex Jure Romano privati in occupatione rerum adespotarum fundatam habent intentionem, […]

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   • 1742, Martin Steyaert, Opuscula ex. D. Martini Steyaert […], page 130:

     De Dominio rerum adespotarum. Quæstio Theologica […] Rectè jure gentium facta est rerum divisio: sed tamen aliquarum adhuc est facienda, quæ ideo adespotæ, hoc est, domino carentes vocantur.

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   • 1775, Cornelius Henricus van Beekesteyn Raket, Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de jure circa res naufragas […], page 34:

     Res ad littora delatas, si plane sint adespotae, cedere Populo, cujus sunt littora, in locis scilicet, ubi Populus jus res adespotas occupandi ademit singulis, et sibi vindicavit; […]

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Second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type) or first/second-declension adjective (Greek-type).

• adespota

• → Italian: adespoto

A regularly declined form of adespotus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈdes.po.toːs/, [äˈd̪ɛs̠pɔt̪oːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdes.po.tos/, [äˈd̪ɛspot̪os]

adespotōs

1. accusative masculine plural of adespotus

• adespotos, -on in Ramminger, Johann (2024 March (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016