dicio

Latin

Alternative forms

• ditio

Noun

diciō f (genitive diciōnis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diciō	diciōnēs
Genitive	diciōnis	diciōnum
Dative	diciōnī	diciōnibus
Accusative	diciōnem	diciōnēs
Ablative	diciōne	diciōnibus
Vocative	diciō	diciōnēs

Descendants

• English: dition
• French: dition

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
• dicio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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