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dicant

dicant is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the 3rd person plural present active subjunctive.

Found 172 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.13.2: Plerique, cum aut aere alieno aut magnitudine tributorum aut iniuria potentiorum premuntur, sese in servitutem dicant nobilibus: in hos eadem omnia sunt iura, quae dominis in servos.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 14.1.17: Dicant enim quot tandem annis vel potius quot saeculis orbis hic observationis perfici quiverit.

All forms of dico (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.