different between consociationalism vs dictator

English

Etymology

consociational +? -ism

Noun

consociationalism (uncountable)

1. Political consociation; government through guaranteed group representation.
   • 1995, Hudson Meadwell, 8: Quebec Independence and Secession in the Developed West, Sukumar Periwal (editor), Notions of Nationalism, page 140,

     Where consociationalism and federalism overlay one another, moreover, the continuity of the latter depends on the stability of consociationalism.

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English

Alternative forms

• dictatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin dict?tor (“a chief magistrate”), from dict? (“dictate, prescribe”), from d?c? (“say, speak”).

Surface analysis is dictate +? -or “one who dictates”.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?k?te?t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?kte?t??/

Noun

dictator (plural dictators)

1. A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
2. (historical) A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
3. A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
4. A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk).

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Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dict?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?k?ta?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: dic?ta?tor
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

dictator m (plural dictatoren or dictators, diminutive dictatortje n)

1. dictator (tyrant, despot)

   Synonyms: despoot, dwingeland, tiran

2. (historical) dictator (Roman magistrate with expanded powers)

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Latin

Etymology

From dict? (“I dictate”) +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dik?ta?.tor/, [d??k?t?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dik?ta.tor/, [d?ik?t???t??r]

Noun

dict?tor m (genitive dict?t?ris); third declension

1. an elected chief magistrate
2. one who dictates.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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References

• dictator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dictator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dictator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• dictator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• dictator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dictator in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dictateur, Latin dict?tor.

Noun

dictator m (plural dictatori)

1. dictator

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