ducātusm (genitiveducātūs); fourth declension(Late Latin, Medieval Latin, New Latin)
leadership, command
guidance
authority
duchy
1873, Roskoványi Ágoston, Romanus Pontifex tamquam primas ecclesiae et princeps civilis e monumentis, page 43:
[…] ut ordinem electionis quo ad hanc commissionem assumpti, sequamur,- sunt: Hispania Gallia, Hibernia, Hungaria, Turcia, Sicilia, Polonia, Ducatus Mutinensis, Brasilia, Bavaria, Belgium, Status uniti Americae septemtrionalis, Tyrolis austriaca, Chili, Anglia, Venetiae, Roma, Indiae orientales, Borussia et California.
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