different between tyran vs dictator

English

Noun

tyran (plural tyrans)

1. Obsolete form of tyrant.

   • Lordly love is such a tyranne fell.

Verb

tyran (third-person singular simple present tyrans, present participle tyranning, simple past and past participle tyranned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To act tyrannically towards.

Anagrams

• ATryn, Taryn, ranty, tryna

Danish

Etymology

Via Latin tyrannus from Ancient Greek ???????? (túrannos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?y???n?], [t?y???n], [t?y????n]

Noun

tyran c (singular definite tyrannen, plural indefinite tyranner)

1. (historical) tyrant (a leader in many Ancient Greek city states)
2. tyrant (an unjust and cruel leader)

Inflection

French

Etymology

From Middle French tyran, borrowed from Latin tyrannus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (túrannos). Replaced Old French tirant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.???/
• Homophones: tirant, tyrans

Noun

tyran m (plural tyrans, feminine tyranne)

1. tyrant
2. bully

Further reading

• “tyran” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

tyran

1. Alternative form of tyraunt

Middle French

Noun

tyran m (plural tyrans)

1. tyrant

Norman

Etymology

From Old French tirant, from Latin tyrannus (“ruler, monarch; tyrant, despot”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (túrannos, “lord, master, sovereign, tyrant”).

Noun

tyran m (plural tyrans)

1. (Jersey) tyrant

Polish

Etymology

From Latin tyrannus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (túrannos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.ran/

Noun

tyran m pers (diminutive tyranek, feminine tyranka)

1. tyrant (oppressive and harsh person)
2. tyrant (harsh and cruel ruler)
3. (historical, Ancient Greece) tyrant (usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession)

Declension

Noun

tyran m anim

1. tyrant flycatcher

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) tyranizowa?, styranizowa?
• (noun) tyra?stwo
• (adjectives) tyra?ski, tyraniczny
• (adverb) tyra?sko

Related terms

• (noun) tyrania

Further reading

• tyran in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tyran in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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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