dicebare
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. 2nd
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..."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..."
