dictate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /(ˌ)dɪkˈteɪt/    美 /ˈdɪkˌteɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An order or command.
    — I must obey the dictates of my conscience.
动词 v.
  1. To order, command, control.
    — Etiquette dictates that wedding invitations should be acknowledged in writing.
  2. To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
    — She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
  3. To determine or decisively affect.
    — He had offered, and been refused! There was that in her own nature, which sympathised with the pride, for such she held to be the motive, dictating the refusal.

词形变化

dictates plural dictates present,singular,third-person dictating participle,present dictated participle,past dictated past

词汇关系

衍生词
dictatable dictater dictatingly misdictate redictate undictated undictating
相关词
dictation dictator dictatress dictatoress dictatrix

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
First attested in 1577; borrowed from Latin dictātus, perfect passive participle of dictō (“to pronounce or declare repeatedly; to dictate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), frequentative of dīcō (“say, speak”).
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