dictature
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French dictature.
Noun
dictature (plural dictatures)
- (obsolete) Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
- 1905, Sir Patrick Geddes, Civics: as Applied Sociology, Sociological Society, B—The Historic Survey Of Cities, p. 109:
- The impressiveness of the aspect of Edinburgh to its visitors is thus not merely pictorial. […] See the hill-fort defended by lake and forest, becoming "castrum puellarum," becoming a Roman and an Arthurian citadel, a mediaeval stronghold of innumerable sieges, a centre of autocratic and military dictatures, oligarchic governments, at length a museum of the past.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554:
- it was in Lucius Syila, to resigne his Dictature
- 1905, Sir Patrick Geddes, Civics: as Applied Sociology, Sociological Society, B—The Historic Survey Of Cities, p. 109:
Anagrams
- trucidate, urticated
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dictātūra, from dictō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dik.ta.tyʁ/
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Noun
dictature f (plural dictatures)
- dictatorship
Derived terms
- dictature du prolétariat
Related terms
- dicter
- dictateur
Further reading
- “dictature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- dictateur
Latin
Participle
dictātūre
- vocative masculine singular of dictātūrus