dicaris
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dico, dicare, dicavi, dicatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dedicate/consecrate; deify; devote; attach to another state; assign; show;
sg. futperf. act. ind. 2ndsg. perf. act. subj. 2nd - Entry →dico, dicare, dicavi, dicatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dedicate/consecrate; deify; devote; attach to another state; assign; show;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 2nd - Entry →dico, dicere, dixi, dictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
say, declare, state; allege, declare positively; assert; plead (case);; talk/speak; make speech; play (instrument); pronounce, articulate; utter; mean;; name/call; appoint, fix/set (date); designate, declare intention of giving;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 2nd - —
Syncopated perfect often drops the 'v' and contracts vowel
Examples
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...cupide adpetisse et, quod temere repudiaveris, temere repudiasse dicaris? VII. At si, opinor," inquit "ita scriptum esset: "Quae..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...laudaveris parcus, si culpaveris nimius fuisse dicaris, quamvis illud plenissime, hoc restrictissime feceris. Sed haec me non retardant..."
