dictature

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dictature.

Noun

dictature (plural dictatures)

1. (obsolete) Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
   • 1905, Sir Patrick Geddes, “Civics: as Applied Sociology”, in B-The Historic Survey Of Cities, Sociological Society, page 109:

     The impressiveness of the aspect of Edinburgh to its visitors is thus not merely pictorial. […] See the hill-fort defended by lake and forest, becoming "castrum puellarum," becoming a Roman and an Arthurian citadel, a mediaeval stronghold of innumerable sieges, a centre of autocratic and military dictatures, oligarchic governments, at length a museum of the past.

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

     it was in Lucius Syila, to resigne his Dictature

Anagrams

• trucidate, urticated

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dictātūra, from dictō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dik.ta.tyʁ/

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Noun

dictature f (plural dictatures)

1. dictatorship

Derived terms

• dictature du prolétariat

Related terms

• dicter
• dictateur

Further reading

• “dictature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dictateur

Latin

Participle

dictātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of dictātūrus