dictatura

See also: dictatură

Latin

Etymology

From dictātor (“chief magistrate”), from dictō (“dictate, prescribe”), from dīcō (“say, speak”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɪk.taːˈtuː.ra]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪ik.t̪aˈt̪uː.ra]

Noun

dictātūra f (genitive dictātūrae); first declension

dictatorship, office of a dictator

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dictātūra	dictātūrae
genitive	dictātūrae	dictātūrārum
dative	dictātūrae	dictātūrīs
accusative	dictātūram	dictātūrās
ablative	dictātūrā	dictātūrīs
vocative	dictātūra	dictātūrae

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: dictadura f
French: dictature f
Galician: ditadura f
Italian: dittatura f
Norman: dictatuthe f
Piedmontese: ditatura
Portuguese: ditadura f
Romanian: dictatură f
Spanish: dictadura f
→ English: dictature
→ German: Diktatur f
→ Hebrew: דיקטטורה f
→ Hungarian: diktatúra
→ Russian: диктатура (diktatura) (see there for further descendants)
→ Serbo-Croatian: diktatura f
→ Swedish: diktatur c

References

“dictatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“dictatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
dictatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)
- to be dictator: dictaturam gerere

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [diktaˈtura]

Noun

dictatura f

definite nominative/accusative singular of dictatură