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interdictum

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
in-ter-dic-tum
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A prohibition: a legal order issued by a praetor (or, in the provinces, a proconsul) at the request of a claimant and addressed to another person, imposing a requirement either to do something or to abstain from doing something.

Etymology

From Latin interdictum.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

interdicta (plural) interdictums (plural)

Questions

What does interdictum mean?
A prohibition: a legal order issued by a praetor (or, in the provinces, a proconsul) at the request of a claimant and addressed to another person, imposing a requirement either to do something or to abstain from doing something.
Where does interdictum come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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