dictate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin dictātus, perfect passive participle of dictō (“pronounce or declare repeatedly; dictate”), frequentative of dīcō (“say, speak”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
- IPA(key): /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdɪkˈteɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
editdictate (plural dictates)
Translations
editan order or command
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Verb
editdictate (third-person singular simple present dictates, present participle dictating, simple past and past participle dictated)
- To order, command, control.
- 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 409:
- Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
- To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
- She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
- The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
- To determine or decisively affect.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 151:
- He had offered, and been refused! There was that in her own nature, which sympathised with the pride, for such she held to be the motive, dictating the refusal.
- 1961 December, “The Channel Tunnel—a realistic proposal”, in Trains Illustrated, page 723:
- Geology dictates the approximate location of the tunnel.
- 1977 August 20, David Holland, quoting Tony Bosco, “Tony Bosco”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 19:
- I didn't lay this bar, or the restaurant for that matter, out on paper. The design was dictated by the materials.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editto order, command, control
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to speak in order for someone to write down the words
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See also
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /dikˈtaː.te/, [d̪ɪkˈt̪äːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dikˈta.te/, [d̪ikˈt̪äːt̪e]
Participle
editdictāte
Verb
editdictāte
Spanish
editVerb
editdictate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of dictar combined with te
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