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dicere

dicere is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the present active infinitive or 2nd person singular present passive indicative.

Found 2,460 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.4.1: Ea res est Helvetiis per indicium enuntiata. Moribus suis Orgetoricem ex vinculis causam dicere coegerunt; damnatum poenam sequi oportebat, ut igni cremaretur.

Ovid, Heroides 4.10: Dicere quae puduit, scribere iussit amor.

Ovid, Tristia 3.3.76: DICERE. NASONIS . MOLLITER. OSSA . CVBENT

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.