dictatura

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dik.taːˈtuː.ra/, [d̪ɪkt̪äːˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dik.taˈtu.ra/, [d̪ikt̪äˈt̪uːrä]

dictātūra f (genitive dictātūrae); first declension

1. dictatorship, office of a dictator

First-declension noun.

• “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
    

• IPA^(key): [diktaˈtura]

dictatura f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of dictatură