ducatus

Latin

Etymology

From dux +‎ -ātus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dʊˈkaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [duˈkaː.tus]

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	ducātus	ducātūs
genitive	ducātūs	ducātuum
dative	ducātuī	ducātibus
accusative	ducātum	ducātūs
ablative	ducātū	ducātibus
vocative	ducātus	ducātūs

Descendants

• → Byzantine Greek: δουκάτον (doukáton), δουκάτο (doukáto)
  • Greek: δουκάτο (doukáto)
• Italian: dogato
• Sicilian: ducatu
• Venetan: dogado
  • → Italian: dogado
• → Catalan: ducat
• → Friulian: ducât
• → Occitan: ducat
• → Old French: duché
  • French: duché
  • → Middle English: duche
    • English: duchy
• → Old Italian: ducato
  • Italian: ducato
  • → Old French: ducat
    • Middle French: ducat
      • → English: ducat
      • French: ducat
        • → Turkish: düka
• → Portuguese: ducado
• → Romanian: ducat
• → Spanish: ducado

References

• “ducatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "ducatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016