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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dictum (“proverb, maxim”), from dictus (“having been said”), perfect passive participle of dico (“I say”). Compare Spanish dicho (“saying”). Doublet of dict.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dictum (plural dicta or dictums)
- An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:
- […] a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound […]
- 1951 July, “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 438:
- 1. The utmost in steam producing capacity permitted by weight and dimensions; in other words, capacity to boil water—H. A. Ivatt's old dictum.
- 1992, Arthur Coleman Danto, Beyond the Brillo Box, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 5:
- But this is not the philosophical revolution of which I speak. What Warhol's dictum amounted to was that you cannot tell when something is a work of art just by looking at it, for there is no particular way that art has to look.
- A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- An arbitrament or award.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]authoritative statement
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See also
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdik.tum/, [ˈd̪ɪkt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdik.tum/, [ˈd̪ikt̪um]
Etymology 1
[edit]Neuter form of dictus (“said, spoken”), past passive participle of dīcō (“to say, to speak”).
Noun
[edit]dictum n (genitive dictī); second declension
- a word, saying, something said
- proverb, maxim, saw
- bon mot, witticism
- Synonym: dictērium
- verse, poetry
- a prophecy, prediction
- order, command
- promise, assurance
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dictum | dicta |
Genitive | dictī | dictōrum |
Dative | dictō | dictīs |
Accusative | dictum | dicta |
Ablative | dictō | dictīs |
Vocative | dictum | dicta |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: dichu
- Friulian: dit
- Judeo-Italian: דִיטוֹ (diṭo /ditto/)
- Italian: detto
- Old French: dit
- Piedmontese: dit
- Spanish: dicho
- Venetian: dito, dit
- → Dutch: dictum (learned)
- → Indonesian: diktum
- → English: dictum (learned)
- → Middle English: dicte
- English: dict
- → German: Diktum (learned)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *diht (see there for further descendants)
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: diktum (learned)
- → Portuguese: dictum (learned)
- → Spanish: dictum (learned)
Further reading
[edit]- “dictum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dictum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dictum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dictum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (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
- (ambiguous) a short, pointed witticism: breviter et commode dictum
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
[edit]dictum
- inflection of dictus:
Verb
[edit]dictum
- accusative supine of dīcō
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]dictum n (definite singular dictumet, indefinite plural dicta or dictum, definite plural dicta or dictaa or dictai or dictuma or dictumi)
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin dictum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dictum n
Declension
[edit]Declension of dictum
Further reading
[edit]- dictum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- dictum in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dictum m (plural dictums)
Further reading
[edit]- “dictum”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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