dictate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dictātus, perfect passive participle of dictō (“pronounce or declare repeatedly; dictate”), frequentative of dīcō (“say, speak”).
Pronunciation
Noun
- IPA(key): /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/
Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌdɪkˈteɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Translations
an order or command
Verb
dictate (third-person singular simple present dictates, present participle dictating, simple past and past participle dictated)
- To order, command, control.
- 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 409,
- Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
- 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 409,
- To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
- She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
- The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
Translations
to order, command, control
to speak in order for someone to write down the words
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dikˈtaː.te/, [dɪkˈtaː.tɛ]
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