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Where does “dictatură” come from?

dictatură (Romanian) 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.

dictatură (Romanian): dictatorship

Definitions

  1. dictatorship

Ancestry of “dictatură”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchdictaturedictatorship
2Latindictātūra—
3Latindictātor—
4Latin-tor-er
5Proto-Italic-tōr—
6Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
7Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →