ducat

See also: ducât and dūcat

English

Etymology

From Middle French, 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/

Noun

ducat (plural ducats)

1. (historical) A gold coin minted by various European nations.
   • William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

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

2. Money in general.
3. A dollar (and, by extension, a euro).

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
• Interlingua: ducato

• Italian: ducato (it)
• Ladino:

  Latin: dukado m

• Macedonian: дукат m (dúkat)
• Portuguese: ducado (pt) m
• Russian: дука́т (ru) m (dukát)
• 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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

dūcat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of dūcō

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Old French

Etymology

Late Old French. From Old 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 (borrowed)
• French: ducat

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdùːtsat/, /ˈdúːtsat/
• Tonal orthography: dúcat, dȗcat

Noun

dúcat m inan (genitive dúcata, nominative plural dúcati)

1. dozen, 12.

Declension

Declension of dúcat (masculine inan., hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	dúcat	dúcata	dúcati
accusative	dúcat	dúcata	dúcate
genitive	dúcata	dúcatov	dúcatov
dative	dúcatu	dúcatoma	dúcatom
locative	dúcatu	dúcatih	dúcatih
instrumental	dúcatom	dúcatoma	dúcati