ducatus

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Latin

Etymology

From dux +‎ -ātus.

Pronunciation

Noun

ducātus m (genitive ducātūs); fourth declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, New Latin)

  1. leadership, command
  2. guidance
  3. authority
  4. duchy
    • 1873, Roskoványi Ágoston, Romanus Pontifex tamquam primas ecclesiae et princeps civilis e monumentis, page 43:
      [] ut ordinem electionis quo ad hanc commissionem assumpti, sequamur,- sunt: Hispania Gallia, Hibernia, Hungaria, Turcia, Sicilia, Polonia, Ducatus Mutinensis, Brasilia, Bavaria, Belgium, Status uniti Americae septemtrionalis, Tyrolis austriaca, Chili, Anglia, Venetiae, Roma, Indiae orientales, Borussia et California.
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Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ducātus ducātūs
Genitive ducātūs ducātuum
Dative ducātuī ducātibus
Accusative ducātum ducātūs
Ablative ducātū ducātibus
Vocative ducātus ducātūs

Descendants

References

  • ducatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ducatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ducatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • ducatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016