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y dictator.
  • //the dictator had a fierce stranglehold on the country, keeping its people in poverty and ignorance
    • First Known Use
    before 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
    History and Etymology
    Middle English dictatour, borrowed from Latin dictātor, from dictāre "to say repeatedly, speak aloud words to be transcribed by another, issue as an order" + -tor, agent suffix — more at dictate entry 1

    NOTE: Though formally a derivative of dictāre, the noun dictātor is attested perhaps two centuries earlier in Latin and may be an independent formation, though the model for it is not clear; the sense "issue as an order" of dictāre may reflect influence of dictātor. The form tictator used in the Old English translation of Orosius's Historiae Adversum Paganos had no subsequent use.

    dictator
    noun

    Synonyms

    • a person who uses power or authority in a
      y dictator.
    • //the dictator had a fierce stranglehold on the country, keeping its people in poverty and ignorance
    First Known Use
    before 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
    History and Etymology
    Middle English dictatour, borrowed from Latin dictātor, from dictāre "to say repeatedly, speak aloud words to be transcribed by another, issue as an order" + -tor, agent suffix — more at dictate entry 1

    NOTE: Though formally a derivative of dictāre, the noun dictātor is attested perhaps two centuries earlier in Latin and may be an independent formation, though the model for it is not clear; the sense "issue as an order" of dictāre may reflect influence of dictātor. The form tictator used in the Old English translation of Orosius's Historiae Adversum Paganos had no subsequent use.

    dictator
    noun

    Synonyms

    • a person who uses power or authority in a