edict
EE-dikt · noun
Origin
Edict comes from Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum. An earlier English form, edit, arrived through Old French edit, tracing back to the same Latin root.
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Journey
The word entered English twice from the same Latin source, once through French as edit and later directly from Latin as edycte, which settled into the modern spelling edict.