dictiones
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;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...plebis pro potestate intercessisse". III. Sed has omnes dictiones qui aut omnino similes et pares aut usquequaque diversas..."Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...aput Iuliani aures in praecipiti stare et subitaria dictione periculum sui facere audebat. VI. Exponit igitur temptamenti gratia..."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..."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..."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..."