Etymology
From dictātor (“chief magistrate”), from dictō (“dictate, prescribe”), from dīcō (“say, speak”).
References
- “dictatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dictatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dictatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)
- to be dictator: dictaturam gerere