Where does “dictatorial” come from?
dictatorial (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese ditatorial, from Latin dictatorius, from Latin dictātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
dictatorial (Portuguese): Obsolete spelling of ditatorial
Definitions
- Obsolete spelling of ditatorial
Ancestry of “dictatorial”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Portuguese | ditatorial | dictatorial; bossy; authoritarian; tyrannical |
| 2 | Latin | dictatorius | dictatorial |
| 3 | Latin | dictātor | — |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |