different between dictum vs mandate

English

Etymology

From Latin dictum (“proverb, maxim”), from dictus (“having been said”), perfect passive participle of dico (“I say”). Compare Spanish dicho (“saying”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?d?k.t?m/

Noun

dictum (plural dicta or dictums)

1. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
   • 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

     ...a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound...

2. A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
3. The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
4. An arbitrament or award.

See also

• ipse dixit

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dik.tum/, [?d??kt????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?dik.tum/, [?d?ikt?um]

Etymology 1

Neuter form of dictus (“said, spoken”), past passive participle of d?c? (“to say, to speak”).

Noun

dictum n (genitive dict?); second declension

1. a word, saying, something said
2. proverb, maxim, saw
3. bon mot, witticism

   Synonym: dict?rium

4. verse, poetry
5. a prophesy, prediction
6. order, command
7. promise, assurance

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

Descendants

Further reading

• dictum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dictum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dictum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• dictum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

dictum

1. inflection of dictus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Verb

dictum

1. accusative supine of d?c?

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

dictum n (definite singular dictumet, indefinite plural dicta or dictum, definite plural dicta or dictaa or dictai or dictuma or dictumi)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by diktum

Spanish

Noun

dictum m (plural dictums)

1. dictum

English

Etymology

Noun is borrowed from Latin mand?tum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mand?tus, past participle of mand?re (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Compare command, commend, demand, remand.

The verb is from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

• IPA^(key): /?mæn.de?t/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /?mæn.de?t/, /mæn?de?t/

Noun

mandate (plural mandates)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
2. (politics) The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
   • 2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press (?ISBN), page 30

     John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.

3. A papal rescript.
4. (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.

Translations

Verb

mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated)

1. to authorize
2. to make mandatory

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• mandate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mandate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: mandatent, mandates

Verb

mandate

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandater
2. third-person singular present indicative of mandater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mandater
4. second-person singular imperative of mandater

Italian

Noun

mandate f

1. plural of mandata

Verb

mandate

1. second-person plural present of mandare
2. second-person plural imperative of mandare
3. feminine plural past participle of mandare

Anagrams

• damante

Latin

Participle

mand?te

1. vocative masculine singular of mand?tus

Spanish

Verb

mandate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mandatar.