dicto
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. ind. 1st - Entry →dico, dicere, dixi, dictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
say, declare, state; allege, declare positively; assert; plead (case);; talk/speak; make speech; play (instrument); pronounce, articulate; utter; mean;; name/call; appoint, fix/set (date); designate, declare intention of giving;
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.abl. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →dictum, dicti:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
words/utterance/remark; one's word/promise; saying/maxim; bon mot, witticism;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- T
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...immittas, pessume? PAEG. Par pari respondes dicto. abi iam, quando ita certa res. nihili facio scire. valeas. SOPH..." - T
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...dederim tibi. TR. Egone te ioculo modo ausim dicto aut facto fallere? TH. Egone aps te ausim..." - T
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...tuam advorsum sententiam. CHAR. Salvos sum, siquidem isti dicto solida et perpetuast fides. DEM. Quid illuc est quod..." - T
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...inscitus qui domino me postulem moderarier: dicto me emit audientem, haud imperatorem sibi. sequimini, ut, quod imperatum..." - T
Captivi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...istoc fecit meas opes aequabiles; memini, cum dicto haud audebat: facto nunc laedat licet. sed viden? fortuna humana..." - T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...prius honorem capiebat suffragio, quam magistro desinebat esse dicto oboediens; at nunc, prius quam septuennis est, si attingas..." - T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quidem edepol nihil est impudentius. PHIL. Audientem dicto, mater, produxisti filiam. III.ii LIBANVS Perfidiae laudes gratiasque habemus merito..." - T
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...vortant, spondeo'? STAS. Eheu ubi usus nil erat dicto, spondeo dicebat; nunc hic, quom opus est, non quit..."
