dictamen

English

Etymology

Latin dictāre (“to dictate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪkˈteɪ.mən/

Noun

dictamen (plural dictamina or dictamens)

1. (rare) A dictation or dictate.
   • Lord Falkland

     That is to say, you are to trust to your own particular discourses, as to particular discourses, and no farther; but to the resolves of the church as to the dictamens of a higher understanding, by the light of which you are to judge and censure of the rest.

Anagrams

• medicant

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Latin

Etymology

From dictō (“I dictate”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dikˈtaː.men/, [d̪ɪkˈt̪äːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dikˈta.men/, [d̪ikˈt̪äːmen]

Noun

dictāmen n (genitive dictāminis); third declension

1. dictation
2. a dictate

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dictāmen	dictāmina
Genitive	dictāminis	dictāminum
Dative	dictāminī	dictāminibus
Accusative	dictāmen	dictāmina
Ablative	dictāmine	dictāminibus
Vocative	dictāmen	dictāmina

Descendants

• English: dictamen
• French: dictamen
• Spanish: dictamen

References

• “dictamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dictamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Spanish

Noun

dictamen m (plural dictámenes)

1. report
2. (law) report