ducat
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French ducat, late Old French ducat, from Old Italian ducato, from Medieval Latin ducatus, from oblique stem of dux (“duke; leader”). Doublet of duchy.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈdʌkət/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌkət
Noun
editducat (plural ducats)
- (historical) A gold coin minted by various European nations.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii]:
- Shylock: "My daughter! O my ducats! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!..."
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 166:
- But when the innkeeper saw what kind of goat the lad had, he thought this was a goat worth having, so when the lad had fallen asleep, he took another goat which couldn't make any golden ducats, and put that in its place.
- (informal) A coin of the major denomination (dollar, euro, etc.); money in general.
- (US, theater, transport, slang) A ticket.
- 1972 [1931], Dashiell Hammett, “IV. The Dog House”, in The Glass Key, Vintage Books, page 73:
- Ned Beaumont said, "Well, I've got a ducat that reads to there, anyway.
- 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:
- Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance.
- 1949 June 11, Billboard:
- […] the lines at the box office since ducats went on sale publicly Wednesday […]
Translations
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Catalan
editPronunciation
editNoun
editducat m (plural ducats)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “ducat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
editEtymology
editOf onomatopoeic origin. Compare dupat, deptat, dusat, cupat.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editducat impf (perfective ducnout)
Conjugation
editInfinitive | ducat, ducati | Active adjective | ducající |
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Verbal noun | ducání | Passive adjective | — |
Present forms | indicative | imperative | ||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | |
1st person | ducám | ducáme | — | ducejme |
2nd person | ducáš | ducáte | ducej | ducejte |
3rd person | ducá | ducají | — | — |
The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive ducat. |
Participles | Past participles | Passive participles | ||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | |
masculine animate | ducal | ducali | — | — |
masculine inanimate | ducaly | — | ||
feminine | ducala | — | ||
neuter | ducalo | ducala | — | — |
Transgressives | present | past |
---|---|---|
masculine singular | ducaje | — |
feminine + neuter singular | ducajíc | — |
plural | ducajíce | — |
Further reading
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French, from late Old French, borrowed from Italian ducato, from Medieval Latin ducātus, from dux (“duke; leader”). Compare also duché.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editducat m (plural ducats)
Descendants
edit- → Turkish: düka
Further reading
edit- “ducat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editVerb
editdūcat
Occitan
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editducat m (plural ducats)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 252.
Old French
editEtymology
editLate Old French. From Italian ducato, from Medieval Latin ducatus, from oblique stem of dux (“duke; leader”).
Noun
editducat oblique singular, m (oblique plural ducaz or ducatz, nominative singular ducaz or ducatz, nominative plural ducat)
- ducat (historical coin)
Descendants
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian ducato. By surface analysis, duce + -at.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editducat n (plural ducate)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | ducat | ducatul | ducate | ducatele | |
genitive-dative | ducat | ducatului | ducate | ducatelor | |
vocative | ducatule | ducatelor |
Noun
editducat m (plural ducați)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | ducat | ducatul | ducați | ducații | |
genitive-dative | ducat | ducatului | ducați | ducaților | |
vocative | ducatule | ducaților |
Further reading
edit- ducat in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Slovene
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdūcat m inan
- dozen, 12
Inflection
editMasculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | dūcat | ||
gen. sing. | dūcata | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
dūcat | dūcata | dūcati |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
dūcata | dūcatov | dūcatov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
dūcatu | dūcatoma | dūcatom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
dūcat | dūcata | dūcate |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
dūcatu | dūcatih | dūcatih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
dūcatom | dūcatoma | dūcati |
Further reading
edit- “ducat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “ducat”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dewk-
- English terms borrowed from Middle French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Old Italian
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English doublets
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- Rhymes:English/ʌkət
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- en:Theater
- en:Transport
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- en:Money
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
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- fr:Currency
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- Occitan terms borrowed from Latin
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- sl:Historical numbers