dicebar
Dictionary entries
- 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. imperf. pass. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...nutrita magistros venatrix, silvis aspera, blanda domi, Lydia dicebar, domino fidissima Dextro, qui non Erigones mallet habere canem..."- P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...mihi iunxit Erectheus, hanc mihi iunxit amor: felix dicebar eramque; non ita dis visum est, aut nunc quoque..."