Latin

Participle

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

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.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• dictum
• mirabile dictu

Related terms

Descendants

Noun

dictus m ‎(genitive dictūs); fourth declension

1. saying, epithet
2. speech

Inflection

Fourth declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dictus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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