ducat

See also: Ducat, ducât, and dūcat

English

Etymology

From Middle French ducat, late Old French ducat, from Old Italian ducato, from Medieval Latin ducatus, from oblique stem of dux (“duke; leader”). Doublet of duchy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌkət/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ʌkət

Noun

ducat (plural ducats)

1. (historical) A gold coin minted by various European nations.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene viii]:

     Shylock: "My daughter! O my ducats! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!..."

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 166:

     But when the innkeeper saw what kind of goat the lad had, he thought this was a goat worth having, so when the lad had fallen asleep, he took another goat which couldn't make any golden ducats, and put that in its place.

2. (informal) A coin of the major denomination (dollar, euro, etc.); money in general.
3. (US, theater, transport, slang) A ticket.
   • 1931 Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key, Vintage Books, (1972), Chapter IV, "The Dog House", part 1, pg. 73

     Ned Beaumont said, "Well, I've got a ducat that reads to there, anyway."

   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:

     Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance.

   • 1949, June 11, Billboard

     […] the lines at the box office since ducats went on sale publicly Wednesday […]

Translations

historical gold coin

• Catalan: ducat (ca) m
• Czech: dukát (cs) m
• Dutch: dukaat (nl) m
• Finnish: dukaatti
• French: ducat (fr) m
• German: Dukat m
• Hungarian: dukát (hu), aranypénz (hu), aranyérme (hu), arany (hu)
• Interlingua: ducato (ia)

• Italian: ducato (it) m
• Ladino:

  Latin: dukado m

• Macedonian: дукат m (dukat)
• Polish: dukat (pl) m
• Portuguese: ducado (pt) m
• Russian: дука́т (ru) m (dukát)
• Serbo-Croatian: dukat (sh) m
• Spanish: ducado (es) m

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /duˈkat/

Noun

ducat m (plural ducats)

1. duchy

Derived terms

• gran ducat

Related terms

• duc

Further reading

• “ducat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French, from late Old French, borrowed from Italian ducato, from Medieval Latin ducātus, from dux (“duke; leader”). Compare also duché.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.ka/

Noun

ducat m (plural ducats)

1. (numismatics) ducat

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

dūcat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of dūcō

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ducatus. Cognate with French duché, Catalan ducat, Italian ducato.

Noun

ducat m (plural ducats)

1. duchy

Related terms

• duc
• ducau

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Old French

Etymology

Late Old French. From Italian ducato, from Medieval Latin ducatus, from oblique stem of dux (“duke; leader”).

Noun

ducat m (oblique plural ducaz or ducatz, nominative singular ducaz or ducatz, nominative plural ducat)

1. ducat (historical coin)

Descendants

• → English: ducat
• French: ducat

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Romanian

Etymology

From Italian ducato.

Noun

ducat m (plural ducate)

1. dukedom, duchy

Declension

Declension of ducat

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ducat	ducatul	(niște) ducate	ducatei
genitive/dative	(unui) ducat	ducatului	(unor) ducate	ducatelor
vocative	ducatule		ducatelor

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dùːt͡sat/, /dúːt͡sat/

Noun

dūcat m inan

1. dozen, 12

Inflection

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	dūcat
gen. sing.	dūcata
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	dūcat	dūcata	dūcati
accusative	dūcat	dūcata	dūcate
genitive	dūcata	dūcatov	dūcatov
dative	dūcatu	dūcatoma	dūcatom
locative	dūcatu	dūcatih	dūcatih
instrumental	dūcatom	dūcatoma	dūcati

Further reading

• “ducat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran