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dictate

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/

The English word “dictate” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An order or command.

verb

  1. To order, command, control.
  2. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
  3. To determine or decisively affect.

Etymology

First attested in 1581; borrowed from Latin dictātum (“a thing said, something dictated”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of dictātus, the perfect passive participle of dictō (“pronounce or declare repeatedly; dictate”), frequentative of dīcō (“say, speak”). Doublet of diktat.

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