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):

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• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Noun

edict (plural edicts)

1. A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
   • 1950 December, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—6”, in Railway Magazine, page 844:

     By this time the edict had gone forth that the railways were to be nationalised on January 1, 1948.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• edictal

Translations

proclamation of law

• Armenian: պատգամ (hy) (patgam)
• Bulgarian: декрет (bg) m (dekret), указ (bg) m (ukaz)
• Catalan: edicte (ca) m
• Czech: výnos (cs) m, edikt m
• Dutch: edict (nl) n
• Faroese: fyriskipan f, kunngerð f
• Finnish: julistus (fi), edikti (fi)
• 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)
• Hungarian: ediktum (hu)
• Indonesian: maklumat (id)
• Italian: editto (it) m
• Japanese: 勅令 (ja) (chokurei)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: فەرمان (ckb) (ferman)

• Latin: ēdictum n
• Macedonian: у́каз m (úkaz), декре́т m (dekrét)
• Ottoman Turkish: امر (emr, emir)
• 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)
• Thai: ประกาศ (th) (bprà-gàat)
• Volapük: dalebüd (vo)
• Yiddish: גזירה f (gezeyre)

Anagrams

• cited, ticed

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin edictum.

Noun

edict n (plural edicte)

1. edict

Declension

Declension of edict

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	edict	edictul		edicte	edictele
genitive-dative	edict	edictului		edicte	edictelor
vocative	edictule			edictelor