edict

English

Etymology

From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiː.dɪkt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Noun

edict (plural edicts)

1. A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
   • 2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 April 2019:

     It was made clear in a pre-tournament referees' briefing that such grappling would be taken seriously and punished, so England have every right to ask why this edict was not carried out.

Translations

proclamation of law

• Armenian: պատգամ (hy) (patgam)
• Bulgarian: декрет (bg) m (dekret), указ (bg) m (ukaz)
• Catalan: edicte m
• Czech: výnos (cs) m, edikt m
• Dutch: edict (nl) n
• Faroese: fyriskipan f, kunngerð f
• Finnish: julistus (fi), edikti
• French: édit (fr) m
• Galician: edicto m, bando m
• German: Edikt (de) n
• Greek: διάταγμα (el) n (diátagma), χρυσόβουλο (el) n (chrysóvoulo)

  Ancient: δόγμα n (dógma)

• Hebrew: הוראה‎ (he) f (horaá), צו‎ (he) m (tsav)
• Indonesian: maklumat (id)

• Italian: editto (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: فەرمان‎ (ku) (ferman)

• Latin: ēdictum n
• Polish: edykt (pl) m, dekret (pl) m
• Portuguese: edito (pt) m
• Romanian: edict (ro) n
• Russian: ука́з (ru) m (ukáz), эдикт (ru) m (edikt)
• Slovak: edikt (sk) m, dekrét m
• Spanish: edicto (es) m
• Swedish: edikt (sv), kungörelse (sv), påbud (sv)
• Volapük: dalebüd (vo)
• Yiddish: גזירה‎ f (gezeyre)

Anagrams

• cited, ticed

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch edict, from Latin ēdictum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːˈdɪkt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: edict
• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Noun

edict n (plural edicten, diminutive edictje n)

1. edict

Descendants

• Afrikaans: edik

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin edictum

Noun

edict n (plural edicte)

1. edict

Declension

Declension of edict

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) edict	edictul	(niște) edicte	edictele
genitive/dative	(unui) edict	edictului	(unor) edicte	edictelor
vocative	edictule		edictelor