Where does “dictatuur” come from?
dictatuur (Dutch) comes from French dictature, from Latin dictātūra, from Latin dictātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
dictatuur (Dutch): dictatorship
Definitions
- dictatorship
Ancestry of “dictatuur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | dictature | dictatorship |
| 2 | Latin | dictātūra | dictatorship, office of a dictator |
| 3 | Latin | dictātor | an elected chief magistrate |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |