Where does “Diktatur” come from?

Diktatur (German) comes from Latin dictātūra, from Latin dictātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

Diktatur (German): dictatorship

Definitions

  1. dictatorship

Ancestry of “Diktatur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindictātūradictatorship, office of a dictator
2Latindictātoran elected chief magistrate
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “Diktatur”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin dictātor →