dictata
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dicto, dictare, dictavi, dictatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dictate (for writing/speaking); compose; draw up; order/prescribe; fix (survey);; say/declare/assert repeatedly/habitually/often/frequently; reiterate; recite;
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. pl. perf. pass. part.nom. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. sg. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →dictatum, dictati:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
things dictated (pl.); dictated lessons or exercises; lessons; precepts/rules;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- D
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...saltantem spectes et chironomunta uolanti cultello, donec peragat dictata magistri omnia; nec minimo sane discrimine refert quo gestu..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...licuius flaturae fuit Thraex, qui et ipse ad dictata pugnavit. Ad summam, omnes postea secti sunt; adeo..." - G
Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...epistulis eius ostenditur, ut disciplinam singulorum susciperent ipsique dictata exercentibus darent. Legionibus stipendium in perpetuum duplicavit. Frumentum, quotiens..." - M
Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...necesse sit isdem de rebus semper quasi dictata decantare neque a commentariolis suis discedere. Nam qui sciet..." - M
Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...ista vestra: 'Si gravis, brevis; si longus, levis' dictata sunt. virtutis, magnitudinis animi, patientiae, fortitudinis fomentis dolor mitigari..."