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dixissent

dixissent is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the 3rd person plural pluperfect active subjunctive.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.31.2: Ea re impetrata sese omnes flentes Caesari ad pedes proiecerunt: non minus se id contendere et laborare ne ea quae dixissent enuntiarentur quam uti ea quae vellent impetrarent, propterea quod, si enuntiatum esset, summum in cruciatum se venturos viderent.

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.