dictus

Perfect passive participle of dīcō (“to say”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɪk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ik.t̪us]

dictus (feminine dicta, neuter dictum); first/second-declension participle

1. said, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been said.
2. declared, stated, having been declared.
   1. affirmed, asserted (positively), having been affirmed.
3. told, having been told.
4. called, named, having been called.
5. referred to, having been referred to.

First/second-declension adjective.

• dictum
• mirabile dictu

dictus m (genitive dictūs); fourth declension

1. saying, epithet
2. speech

Fourth-declension noun.

• “dictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • it sounds incredible: incredibile dictu est
    
  • (ambiguous) a short, pointed witticism: breviter et commode dictum
    
  • (ambiguous) a witticism, bon mot: facete dictum
    
  • (ambiguous) a far-fetched joke: arcessitum dictum (De Or. 2. 63. 256)
    
  • (ambiguous) to make jokes on a person: dicta dicere in aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to obey a person's orders: dicto audientem esse alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) as I said above: ut supra (opp. infra) diximus, dictum est
    
  • (ambiguous) so much for this subject...; enough has been said on..: ac (sed) de ... satis dixi, dictum est