different between dictator vs murderer

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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Descendants

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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English

Alternative forms

• murtherer (obsolete)

Etymology

From murder +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?d???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??d???/
• Hyphenation: mur?der?er

Noun

murderer (plural murderers, feminine murderess)

1. A person who commits murder.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty

   • I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:killer

Coordinate terms

• murderess

Related terms

• murder
• murderess

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Translations

Anagrams

• demurrer