dictator
English
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Etymology
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From Latin dictātor (“a chief magistrate”), from dictō (“dictate, prescribe”), from dīcō (“say, speak”).
Surface analysis is dictate + -or “one who dictates”.
Pronunciation
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Noun
dictator (plural dictators)
- A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
- Dictators are always punished eventually.
- (historical) A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
- A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
- A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk).
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Translations
totalitarian leader of a dictatorship
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tyrannical boss, or authority figure
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Dutch
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Pronunciation
Noun
dictator m (plural dictatoren or dictators, diminutive dictatortje n)
- dictator (tyrant, despot)
- Synonyms: despoot, dwingeland, tiran
- (historical) dictator (Roman magistrate with expanded powers)
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Latin
Etymology
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From dictō (“I dictate”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /dikˈtaː.tor/, [d̪ɪkˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dikˈta.tor/, [d̪ikˈt̪äːt̪or]
Noun
dictātor m (genitive dictātōris); third declension
- an elected chief magistrate
- one who dictates.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dictātor | dictātōrēs |
Genitive | dictātōris | dictātōrum |
Dative | dictātōrī | dictātōribus |
Accusative | dictātōrem | dictātōrēs |
Ablative | dictātōre | dictātōribus |
Vocative | dictātor | dictātōrēs |
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References
- “dictator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dictator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dictator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dictator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to name a person dictator: dictatorem dicere (creare)
- a dictator appoints a magister equitum: dictator dicit (legit) magistrum equitum
- to name a person dictator: dictatorem dicere (creare)
- “dictator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dictator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dictateur, Latin dictātor.
Noun
dictator m (plural dictatori)
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