dictate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Borrowed from Latin dictātus, perfect passive participle of dictō (“pronounce or declare repeatedly; dictate”), frequentative of dīcō (“say, speak”).

Pronunciation

Noun

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪkˈteɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

dictate (plural dictates)

1. An order or command.

   I must obey the dictates of my conscience.

Translations

an order or command

• Bulgarian: заповед (bg) f (zapoved), нареждане (bg) n (nareždane), диктат (bg) m (diktat)
• Galician: orde f
• Arabic: إملاء
• German: Diktat (de) n, Gebot (de) n
• Hungarian: parancs (hu), diktátum
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: ordem (pt) f, comando (pt) m
• Russian: веле́ние (ru) n (velénije), дикта́т (ru) m (diktát)
• Spanish: orden (es) f

Verb

1. To order, command, control.
   • 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 409,

     Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.

2. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.

   She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.

   The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.

Derived terms

• dictation
• dictator

Translations

to order, command, control

• Arabic: أَمْلَى (ʔamlā)
• Bulgarian: командвам (bg) (komandvam), нареждам (bg) (nareždam)
• Finnish: sanella (fi)
• German: diktieren (de), bestimmen (de), vorschreiben (de)
• Hebrew: הכתיב (hikhtív)
• Hungarian: diktál (hu)
• Maori: whakatopatopa
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: dyktować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: ordenar (pt), comandar (pt), controlar (pt)
• Russian: кома́ндовать (ru) (komándovatʹ), предпи́сывать (ru) (predpísyvatʹ)
• Spanish: ordenar (es)
• Tagalog: diktahan

to speak in order for someone to write down the words

• Arabic: أَمْلَى (ʔamlā), أَكْتَبَ (ʔaktaba)
• Bulgarian: диктувам (bg) (diktuvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 听写 (zh) (tīngxiě)

• Czech: diktovat (cs)
• Finnish: sanella (fi)
• French: dicter (fr)
• German: diktieren (de)
• Hebrew: הכתיב (hikhtív)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: diktál (hu), tollba mond (hu)
• Irish: deachtaigh
• Latin: dictō (la)
• Maori: āhukareo
• Polish: dyktować (pl) impf, podyktować pf
• Portuguese: ditar (pt)
• Romanian: dicta (ro)
• Russian: диктова́ть (ru) (diktovátʹ)
• Spanish: dictar (es)
• Swedish: diktera (sv)

See also

• diktat

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dikˈtaː.te/, [d̪ɪkˈt̪äːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dikˈta.te/, [d̪ikˈt̪äːt̪e]

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dictāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dictātus

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dictāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dictō