hospodar

[ hos-puh-dahr ]

noun

1. a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldova.

hospodar

/ ˈhɒspəˌdɑː /

noun

1. (formerly) the governor or prince of Moldavia or Wallachia under Ottoman rule

Word History and Origins

Origin of hospodar¹

1620–30; < Romanian < Ukrainian gospodár' literally, lord; compare Russian Church Slavonic gospodarĭ (cognate with Czech hospodář, Serbo-Croatian gospòdār ), equivalent to gospodĭ lord + -arĭ noun suffix; gospodĭ perhaps < *gos ( tĭ )- potĭ, hence cognate with Latin hospes ( host ¹ ), though d for t unexplained

Word History and Origins

Origin of hospodar¹

C17: via Romanian from Ukrainian, from hospod' lord; related to Russian gospodin courtesy title, Old Slavonic gospodǐ lord

Example Sentences

The death of Elena in 1505, and of the Hospodar a year earlier, left the youth Dimitri in a forlorn and friendless condition.

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He is (I believe at this time) the secretary to Milosh, the hospodar of Servia.

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He was succeeded as grand dragoman by his son John (Ioannes), who was for a short while hospodar of Moldavia, and died in 1720.

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Russia merely reserved to herself the appointment of the first hospodar of each principality.

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Sutsos, the Hospodar, at once handed over all the apparatus of government, and supplied the insurgents with a large sum of money.

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