dictione
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dictio, dictionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
speaking/saying/uttering (action); declaration of judgment/penalty; prediction;; public speaking; method/style/form of speaking; inflection; delivery/speech;
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...plebis pro potestate intercessisse". III. Sed has omnes dictiones qui aut omnino similes et pares aut usquequaque diversas..." - A
Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...aput Iuliani aures in praecipiti stare et subitaria dictione periculum sui facere audebat. VI. Exponit igitur temptamenti gratia..." - L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...gratiosus quibus nocens, conciliaturas exerceret in ipsa causae dictione. Credat hoc quisquam? qui damnabatur uno adulterio absolutus..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...promptu habuerint, ut, quotiens esset occasio, extemporales eorum dictiones his uelut emblematis exornarentur: quo quidem (neque enim eius..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quam vitantes ambiguitatem quidam dicere maluerunt voces, locutiones, dictiones. III. Singula sunt aut nostra aut peregrina, aut simplicia..."