dixerat

dixerat is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative.

Found 300 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.18.2: Quaerit ex solo ea quae in conventu dixerat. Dicit liberius atque audacius. Eadem secreto ab aliis quaerit; reperit esse vera:

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.2: … ec Scipionis oratio, quod senatus in urbe habebatur Pompeiusque aderat, ex ipsius ore Pompei mitti videbatur. Dixerat aliquis leniorem sententiam, ut primo M. Marcellus, ingressus in eam orationem, non oportere ante de ea re ad …

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 5.P1: DIXERAT orationisque cursum ad alia quaedam tractanda atque expedienda uertebat. Tum ego: Recta quidem, inquam, exhor …

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.