Dictatorship

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late Middle English: from Latin, from dictat- ‘dictated’, from the verb dictare (see dictate).

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dictator +‎  -ship

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dictatorship (n.)

1580s, "office or term of a (Roman) dictator," from dictator + -ship. The sense of "absolute authority" evolved by late 17c.