different between dictum vs commandment
dictum
English
Etymology
From Latin dictum (“proverb, maxim”), from dictus (“having been said”), perfect passive participle of dico (“I say”). Compare Spanish dicho (“saying”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?d?k.t?m/
Noun
dictum (plural dicta or dictums)
- An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- ...a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound...
- 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- An arbitrament or award.
See also
- ipse dixit
Translations
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?dik.tum/, [?d??kt????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?dik.tum/, [?d?ikt?um]
Etymology 1
Neuter form of dictus (“said, spoken”), past passive participle of d?c? (“to say, to speak”).
Noun
dictum n (genitive dict?); second declension
- a word, saying, something said
- proverb, maxim, saw
- bon mot, witticism
- Synonym: dict?rium
- verse, poetry
- a prophesy, prediction
- order, command
- promise, assurance
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- dictum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dictum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dictum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- dictum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
dictum
- inflection of dictus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Verb
dictum
- accusative supine of d?c?
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
dictum n (definite singular dictumet, indefinite plural dicta or dictum, definite plural dicta or dictaa or dictai or dictuma or dictumi)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by diktum
Spanish
Noun
dictum m (plural dictums)
- dictum
dictum From the web:
- what dictum means
- what dictum meaning in law
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- what is dictum in law
- what does dictum mean in to kill a mockingbird
- what does dictum meum pactum mean
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- what is dictum et promissum
commandment
English
Alternative forms
- commaundment, commandement (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English comaundement, from Old French comandement, from comander. See command.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??m??ndm?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??mændm?nt/
Noun
commandment (countable and uncountable, plural commandments)
- (religion) A divinely ordained command, especially one of the Ten Commandments.
- (archaic) Something that must be obeyed; a command or edict.
- Pau. Pray you then,
- Conduct me to the Queene.
- Gao. I may not (Madam)
- To the contrary I haue expre??e commandment.
- (obsolete) The act of commanding; exercise of authority.
- Orl. Speake you ?o gently ? Pardon me I pray you,
- I thought that all things had bin ?auage heere,
- And therefore put I on the countenance
- Of ?terne command'ment.
- (law) The offence of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.
Translations
commandment From the web:
- what commandment does john forget
- what commandment was meliodas
- what commandment is adultery
- what commandments did jesus give
- what commandment did john forget
- what commandment is love thy neighbor
- what commandment is do not kill
- what commandment is lying
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