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Latin
Etymology
From dux + -ātus.
Pronunciation
Noun
ducātus m (genitive ducātūs); fourth declension
- (post-Augustinian) leadership, command
- (Medieval Latin) guidance
- (Medieval Latin) authority
- (New Latin) 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
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