Where does “dictator” come from?
Dictator comes from Latin dictātor, from dictum, the past participle of dicere meaning to say or speak, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European deyḱ-.
dictator (English): A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or...
Definitions
- A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or...
Ancestry of “dictator”, step by step
Words derived from “dictator”
- dictatorship
- dictatorial
- dictatorially
- dictatress
- antidictatorship
- antidictatorial
- dictatorialness
- nondictatorial
- nondictatorship
- undictatorial
- dictatorialism
- antidictator
- tin-pot dictator
- dictatorlike
- dictatoress
- dikteta
- dicktator
- dictatorless
- quasi-dictator
- petro-dictatorship
- udikteta
- codictatorship
- dicktatorship
- dictatoriality