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dictu

dictu is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the supine dative singular neuter.

Found 166 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.32: … t meministis, aut ex eo quem sui simillimum produxit recognoscere potestis. omnia praeteribo quae mihi turpia dictu videbuntur, neque solum quid istum audire, verum etiam quid me deceat dicere considerabo. vos, quaeso, date h …

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.