dictatura

See also: dictatură

Latin

Etymology

From dictātor (“chief magistrate”), from dictō (“dictate, prescribe”), from dīcō (“say, speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dik.taːˈtuː.ra/, [d̪ɪkt̪äːˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dik.taˈtu.ra/, [d̪ikt̪äˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

dictātūra f (genitive dictātūrae); first declension

1. dictatorship, office of a dictator

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dictātūra	dictātūrae
Genitive	dictātūrae	dictātūrārum
Dative	dictātūrae	dictātūrīs
Accusative	dictātūram	dictātūrās
Ablative	dictātūrā	dictātūrīs
Vocative	dictātūra	dictātūrae

Related terms

• dīcō
• dictābolārium
• dictāmen
• dictāta
• dictātiō

• dictātiuncula
• dictātor
• dictātōrius
• dictātrīx
• dictiō

• dictiōsus
• dictitō
• dictō
• dictum
• dictus

Descendants

• Catalan: dictadura f
• English: dictature
• French: dictature f
• Galician: ditadura f
• German: Diktatur f
• Hungarian: diktatúra
• Italian: dittatura f

• Norman: dictatuthe f
• Portuguese: ditadura f
• Romanian: dictatură f
• Russian: диктатура (diktatura)
• Spanish: dictadura f
• Swedish: diktatur c

References

• “dictatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dictatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dictatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)
    
  • to be dictator: dictaturam gerere