different between dominate vs dictator

English

Etymology

From Latin domin?tus, perfect active participle of dominor (“rule, have dominion”), from dominus (“lord, master”); see dominus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?m??ne?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??m??ne?t/

Verb

dominate (third-person singular simple present dominates, present participle dominating, simple past and past participle dominated)

1. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power

   Antonyms: obey, submit

2. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone

   Antonyms: obey, submit

3. To enjoy a commanding position in some field
4. To overlook from a height.
5. (computing, graph theory) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.

Derived terms

• male-dominated

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Translations

Adjective

dominate (comparative more dominate, superlative most dominate)

1. Eggcorn of dominant.

Noun

dominate (countable and uncountable, plural dominates)

1. (historical) The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.
   • 1973, Karl Loewenstein, The Governance of Rome, Martinus Nijhoff, page 238,

     During the Dominate this tendency was perfected to the point of dirigism in the modern sense, a state-directed society and state-controlled economy, obliterating, once again a prelude to modern times, the laissez-faire climate that had characterized the economic self-determination of the individual under the republic and the Principate.

   • 1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317,

     The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.

   • 1997, Thomas Dunlap (translator), Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, [1990, Das Reich und die Germanen], University of California Press, 2005, Paperback, page 55,

     Once someone had attained senatorial dignity by way of the successful tenure of some appropriate magistracy, one of the most important mechanisms of the dominate kicked in: all social rankings and professions were to a large extent heritable.

Usage notes

• The period begins 284 CE — the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and beginning of the reign of Diocletian, who instituted reforms.
  • In the west, it ends 476 CE, with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
  • In the east, the end is taken either to be 565 CE (the end of Justinian I's reign) or 641 CE (the end of Heraclius' reign).

Coordinate terms

• principate

Translations

See also

• tetrarchy

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• diamonte, nematoid, ominated

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /domi?nate/

Adverb

dominate

1. present adverbial passive participle of domini

Italian

Verb

dominate

1. second-person plural present indicative of dominare
2. second-person plural imperative of dominare

Participle

dominate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of dominare

Anagrams

• dimenato
• indomate
• meditano
• menadito
• metadoni
• mondiate
• nematodi
• tendiamo

Latin

Participle

domin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of domin?tus

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.

Derived terms

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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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