dictatura

See also: dictatură

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /dik.taːˈtuː.ra/, [dɪk.taːˈtuː.ra]

Noun

dictātūra f (genitive dictātūrae); first declension

  1. dictatorship, office of a dictator

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dictātūra dictātūrae
Genitive dictātūrae dictātūrārum
Dative dictātūrae dictātūrīs
Accusative dictātūram dictātūrās
Ablative dictātūrā dictātūrīs
Vocative dictātūra dictātūrae

Descendants

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, 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
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