dictus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dīcō (“say”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdik.tus/, [ˈd̪ɪkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdik.tus/, [ˈd̪ikt̪us]
Participle
dictus (feminine dicta, neuter dictum); first/second-declension participle
- said, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been said.
- declared, stated, having been declared.
- affirmed, asserted (positively), having been affirmed.
- told, having been told.
- called, named, having been called.
- referred to, having been referred to.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dictus | dicta | dictum | dictī | dictae | dicta | |
| Genitive | dictī | dictae | dictī | dictōrum | dictārum | dictōrum | |
| Dative | dictō | dictō | dictīs | ||||
| Accusative | dictum | dictam | dictum | dictōs | dictās | dicta | |
| Ablative | dictō | dictā | dictō | dictīs | |||
| Vocative | dicte | dicta | dictum | dictī | dictae | dicta | |
Derived terms
- dictum
- mirabile dictu
Related terms
Related terms
- dīcō
- dictābolārium
- dictāmen
- dictāta
- dictātiō
- dictātiuncula
- dictātor
- dictātōrius
- dictātrīx
- dictātūra
- dictiō
- dictiōnārium
- dictiōsus
- dictitō
- dictō
Descendants
- Asturian: dichu
- Catalan: dit
- French: dit
- Galician: dito
- Friulian: dit
- Istriot: deîto
- Italian: detto
- Occitan: dich
- Old French: dit
- Old Spanish: decho
- Piedmontese: dit
- Portuguese: dito
- Sicilian: dittu
- Spanish: dicho
- Venetian: dito
Noun
dictus m (genitive dictūs); fourth declension
- saying, epithet
- speech
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dictus | dictūs |
| Genitive | dictūs | dictuum |
| Dative | dictuī | dictibus |
| Accusative | dictum | dictūs |
| Ablative | dictū | dictibus |
| Vocative | dictus | dictūs |
References
- “dictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- it sounds incredible: incredibile dictu est
- (ambiguous) a short, pointed witticism: breviter et commode dictum
- (ambiguous) a witticism, bon mot: facete dictum
- (ambiguous) a far-fetched joke: arcessitum dictum (De Or. 2. 63. 256)
- (ambiguous) to make jokes on a person: dicta dicere in aliquem
- (ambiguous) to obey a person's orders: dicto audientem esse alicui
- (ambiguous) as I said above: ut supra (opp. infra) diximus, dictum est
- (ambiguous) so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est
- it sounds incredible: incredibile dictu est