Latin

Alternative forms

• ditio

Noun

dicio f ‎(genitive diciōnis); third declension

1. authority, power, control
2. rule, domain, sway

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• dicio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dicio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dicio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: terram suae dicionis facere
    
  • to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: sub imperio et dicione alicuius esse
    
  • to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: subiectum esse, obnoxium esse imperio or dicioni alicuius (not simply alicui)
    
  • to be subject to some one, under some one's dominion: in potestate, in dicione alicuius esse