different between rudiment vs dictum

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?d?m?nt/

Noun

rudiment (plural rudiments)

1. (often in the plural) A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.

   We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
2. (often in the plural) A form that lacks full or complex development.

   I have the rudiments of an escape plan.

   • a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Ornamentation of Nature

     The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.

3. (biology) A body part that no longer has a function
4. (music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.

Hypernyms

• (biology): vestigiality

Derived terms

• rudimental
• rudimentary

Related terms

• erudite

Translations

Further reading

• rudiment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rudiment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rudiment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Verb

rudiment (third-person singular simple present rudiments, present participle rudimenting, simple past and past participle rudimented)

1. (transitive) To ground; to settle in first principles.

Anagrams

• unmitred

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin rudimentum.

Noun

rudiment m (plural rudiments)

1. rudiment (fundamental principle)

Related terms

• rudimentari

Further reading

• “rudiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rudiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “rudiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rudiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Latin rudimentum

Noun

rudiment m (plural rudiments)

1. rudiment (fundamental principle)

Related terms

• rudimentaire

Further reading

• “rudiment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.

Noun

rudiment n (plural rudimente)

1. rudiment

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rud?ment/
• Hyphenation: ru?di?ment

Noun

rudìment m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. rudiment

Declension

References

• “rudiment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

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)

1. 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...

2. A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
3. The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
4. 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

1. a word, saying, something said
2. proverb, maxim, saw
3. bon mot, witticism

   Synonym: dict?rium

4. verse, poetry
5. a prophesy, prediction
6. order, command
7. 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

1. inflection of dictus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Verb

dictum

1. 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)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by diktum

Spanish

Noun

dictum m (plural dictums)

1. dictum