ducatus

Latin

Etymology

From dux.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /duˈkaː.tus/, [d̪ʊˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /duˈka.tus/, [d̪uˈkäːt̪us]

Noun

ducātus m (genitive ducātūs); fourth declension

1. (post-Augustinian) leadership, command
2. (Medieval Latin) guidance
3. (Medieval Latin) authority
4. (New Latin) duchy
   • 1873, Ágoston Roskovány, Romanus Pontifex tamquam primas ecclesiae et princeps civilis e monumentis, page 43:

     […] ut ordinem electionis quo ad hanc commissionem assumpti, sequamur,- sunt: Hispania Gallia, Hibernia, Hungaria, Turcia, Sicilia, Polonia, Ducatus Mutinensis, Brasilia, Bavaria, Belgium, Status uniti Americae septemtrionalis, Tyrolis austriaca, Chili, Anglia, Venetiae, Roma, Indiae orientales, Borussia et California.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ducātus	ducātūs
Genitive	ducātūs	ducātuum
Dative	ducātuī	ducātibus
Accusative	ducātum	ducātūs
Ablative	ducātū	ducātibus
Vocative	ducātus	ducātūs

Descendants

• Catalan: ducat
• English: duchy
• French: duché
• Friulian: ducât
• Italian: dogado, dogato, ducato
• Occitan: ducat

• Portuguese: ducado
• Romanian: ducat
• Sicilian: ducatu
• Spanish: ducado
• Venetian: dogado

References

• “ducatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ducatus 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)
• ducatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• ducatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016