edict
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]edict (plural edicts)
- A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
- 1950 December, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—6”, in Railway Magazine, page 844:
- By this time the edict had gone forth that the railways were to be nationalised on January 1, 1948.
- 2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, “Tunisia 1 – 2 England”, in BBC Sport[1], archived from the original on 21 April 2019:
- It was made clear in a pre-tournament referees' briefing that such grappling would be taken seriously and punished, so England have every right to ask why this edict was not carried out.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]proclamation of law
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch edict, from Latin ēdictum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]edict n (plural edicten, diminutive edictje n)
Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: edik
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]edict n (plural edicte)
Declension
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *deyḱ-
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- Rhymes:English/ɪkt
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