Where does “diktatur” come from?

diktatur (Norwegian Nynorsk) 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 (Norwegian Nynorsk): dictatorship

Definitions

dictatorship

Ancestry of “diktatur”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	dictātūra	dictatorship, office of a dictator
2	Latin	dictātor	an elected chief magistrate
3	Latin	-tor	-er
4	Proto-Italic	-tōr	Forms agent nouns to verb stems
5	Proto-Indo-European	-tōr	Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6	Proto-Indo-European	-tor-s	—

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