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dica
dica
Italian
Verb
dica
- first-person singular, second-person singular and third-person singular present subjunctive of dire
- third-person singular imperative of dire
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
dicā
- second-person singular present active imperative of dicō
References
- dica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- DICA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dica”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) so to speak (used to modify a figurative expression): ut ita dicam
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(ambiguous) not to mention..: ut non (nihil) dicam de...
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(ambiguous) to say nothing further on..: ut plura non dicam
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(ambiguous) not to say... (used in avoiding a stronger expression): ne dicam
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(ambiguous) to say the least..: ne (quid) gravius dicam
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(ambiguous) to put it briefly: ut breviter dicam
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(ambiguous) to use the mildest expression: ut levissime dicam (opp. ut gravissimo verbo utar)
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(ambiguous) to express myself more plainly: ut planius dicam
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(ambiguous) to put it more exactly: ut verius dicam
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(ambiguous) to say once for all: ut semel or in perpetuum dicam
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(ambiguous) I will give you my true opinion: dicam quod sentio
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(ambiguous) this I have to say: haec habeo dicere or habeo quae dicam
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(ambiguous) there is something in what you say; you are more or less right: aliquid (τι) dicis (opp. nihil dicis)
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(ambiguous) what do you mean: quorsum haec (dicis)?
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(ambiguous) it is incredible: monstra dicis, narras
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(ambiguous) so to speak (used to modify a figurative expression): ut ita dicam