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Dictate

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to state words for another to write down, or to lay down rules with authority
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Stage 1 of 2
dictare
Latin · ancient
"to say repeatedly, to prescribe"
to say repeatedly, to prescribe, from dicere (to say)
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Stage 2 of 2
dictate
English · 1620s
"to speak words for another to write, or to issue authoritative orders"
settled as the English word for speaking words for another to write, or issuing orders
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