dictavi
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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...libri copia fuisset id temporis, cum haec dictavi. Quod si non virtutes dignitatesque verborum, sed rem ipsam scire..."Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...lyristae post cenam locus, sed illa, quae dictavi, identidem retractantur, ac simul memoriae frequenti emendatione proficitur. Habes aestate..."