dictatorとは

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語源

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

Surface analysis is dictate +‎ -or “one who dictates”.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪkˈteɪtə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪkteɪtəɹ/

名詞

dictator (複数形 dictators)

1. A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
   • 2019, (Existential Comics), 29 January, 9:27 AM Tweet:

     Dictator, noun : someone who doesn't let American CEOs dictate how their country is run

2. (historical) A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
3. A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
4. A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk).

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Latin

語源

From dictō (“I dictate”) +‎ -tor.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dikˈtaː.tor/, [d̪ɪkˈt̪aː.t̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dikˈta.tor/, [d̪ikˈt̪aː.t̪ɔr]

名詞

dictātor m (genitive dictātōris); third declension

1. an elected chief magistrate
2. one who dictates.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

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参照

• dictator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dictator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dictator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• dictator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to name a person dictator: dictatorem dicere (creare)
    
  • a dictator appoints a magister equitum: dictator dicit (legit) magistrum equitum
    
• dictator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dictator in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin