dictet
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. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- D
Satura VIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...Phalaris licet imperet ut sis falsus et admoto dictet periuria tauro, summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori..." - L
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...contrariis aspernationes sunt;sine ulla cogitatione quae hoc dictet, sine consilio fit quidquid naturapraecepit. (22) Non uides quanta..."