dicendi

dicendi is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the gerundive nominative plural masculine or gerundive vocative plural masculine or gerundive genitive singular neuter or gerundive genitive singular masculine.

Found 736 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.32: … atum ab X tribunis plebis contradicentibus inimicis, Catone vero acerrime repugnante et pristina consuetudine dicendi mora dies extrahente, ut sui ratio absentis haberetur, ipso consule Pompeio; qui si Improbasset, cur ferri pa …

Cicero, On Oratory 1.48: … mposite, ornate, copiose loqui, quaero, id ipsum qui possit adsequi sine ea scientia, quam ei non conceditis? Dicendi enim virtus, nisi ei, qui dicet, ea, quae dicet, percepta sunt, exstare non potest.

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.