dictus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dīcō (“to say”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɪk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ik.t̪us]

Participle

dictus (feminine dicta, neuter dictum); first/second-declension participle

1. said, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been said.
2. declared, stated, having been declared.
   1. affirmed, asserted (positively), having been affirmed.
3. told, having been told.
4. called, named, having been called.
5. referred to, having been referred to.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dictus	dicta	dictum		dictī	dictae	dicta
genitive	dictī	dictae	dictī		dictōrum	dictārum	dictōrum
dative	dictō	dictae	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
• Venetan: dito

Noun

dictus m (genitive dictūs); fourth declension

1. saying, epithet
2. speech

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	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