dictamen

English

Etymology

Latin dictāre (to dictate).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪkˈteɪ.mən/

Noun

dictamen (plural dictamina or dictamens)

  1. (rare) A dictation or dictate.
    • Lord Falkland
      That is to say, you are to trust to your own particular discourses, as to particular discourses, and no farther; but to the resolves of the church as to the dictamens of a higher understanding, by the light of which you are to judge and censure of the rest.

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From dictō (I dictate) + -men (noun-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /dikˈtaː.men/, [dɪkˈtaː.mɛn]

Noun

dictāmen n (genitive dictāminis); third declension

  1. dictation
  2. a dictate

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dictāmen dictāmina
Genitive dictāminis dictāminum
Dative dictāminī dictāminibus
Accusative dictāmen dictāmina
Ablative dictāmine dictāminibus
Vocative dictāmen dictāmina

Descendants

References

  • dictamen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dictamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Noun

dictamen m (plural dictámenes)

  1. report
  2. (law) report
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