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diceret

diceret is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 626 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.4.2: Die constituta causae dictionis Orgetorix ad iudicium omnem suam familiam, ad hominum milia decem, undique coegit, et omnes clientes obaeratosque suos, quorum magnum numerum habebat, eodem conduxit; per eos ne causam diceret se eripuit.

Martial, Epigrammata 1.36.5: Diceret infernas et qui prior isset ad umbras:

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.