edictum

From ēdīcō (“I declare, announce, decree”), from ex (“out of, from”) + dīcō (“say, affirm, tell”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈdik.tum/, [eːˈdɪk.tũ]

ēdictum n (genitive ēdictī); second declension

1. A proclamation, ordinance, edict, decree or manifesto by a magistrate.
2. The public announcement of the praetor or other senior magistrate, in which he states, on entering upon his office, the rules by which he will be guided in administering justice; inaugural address.
3. (by extension) An order, command, edict.

Second declension.

• (order): ēdictiō

• ēdictālis

• ēdīcō
• ēdictiō
• ēdictō

• edictum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• edictum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• edictum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• edictum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to publish, post up an edict: edictum proponere (Att. 2. 21. 4)
    
• edictum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• edictum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin