adespotos

Latin

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

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)

(of books) masterless
1. without specifying an author, anonymous
2. without specifying a dedicatee, undedicated
(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).

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	adespotos	adespotos adespota	adespoton	adespotoe adespotī	adespotoe adespotae	adespota
genitive	adespotī	adespotī adespotae	adespotī	adespotōrum	adespotōrum adespotārum	adespotōrum
dative	adespotō	adespotō adespotae	adespotō	adespotīs
accusative	adespoton	adespoton adespotān	adespoton	adespotōs	adespotōs adespotās	adespota
ablative	adespotō	adespotō adespotā	adespotō	adespotīs
vocative	adespote	adespote adespota	adespoton	adespotoe adespotī	adespotoe adespotae	adespota

A regularly declined form of adespotus.

adespotōs

adespotos, -on in Ramminger, Johann (2024 March (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016