/hos"peuh dahr'/ , n.
a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
[ 1620-30; gospodár' lit., lord; cf. Russ Church Slavonic gospodari (c. Czech hospodár, Serbo-Croatian gospòdar ), equiv. to gospodi lord + - ari n. suffix; gospodi perh. gos ( ti )- poti, hence c. L hospes (see HOST 1 ), though d for t unexplained ]