tictator

Borrowed from Latin dictātor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtik.tɑ.tor/

tictator m

1. a dictator (absolute ruler of the Roman Republic)
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Æfter þām hīe ġesetton tictator þæt hē sċolde bēon hearra ofer þā consulas, sē wæs hāten Decius Iūnius. Hē næs būtan seofontīenewintre.

     After that, they chose a dictator to rule over the consuls, whose name was Decius Junius. He was only seventeen years old.

Strong a-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “tictator”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.