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Latin
Etymology
Future passive participle (gerundive) of dīcō.
Participle
dīcendus (feminine dīcenda, neuter dīcendum); first/second-declension participle
- which is to be said, uttered; mentioned, spoken
- which is to be declared, stated
- which is to be affirmed, asserted (positively)
- which is to be told
- which is to be called, named
- which is to be referred to
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the art of speaking; oratory: ars dicendi
- to devote oneself to oratory: ad dicendum se conferre
- to teach rhetoric: dicendi praecepta tradere
- a teacher of rhetoric: rhetor, dicendi magister
- oratorical talent: facultas dicendi
- to be a born orator: natum, factum esse ad dicendum
- to be a ready, fluent speaker: facilem et expeditum esse ad dicendum (Brut. 48. 180)
- to be an inexperienced speaker: rudem, tironem ac rudem (opp. exercitatum) esse in dicendo
- to be very eloquent: dicendi arte florere
- oratorical power: vis dicendi
- to have great weight as a speaker: multum dicendo valere, posse
- to come forward to make a speech; to address the house: aggredi ad dicendum
- to begin to speak: initium dicendi facere
- to cease speaking: finem dicendi facere
- to be never at a loss for something to say: solutum et expeditum esse ad dicendum
- style: genus dicendi (scribendi); oratio
- elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
- a rough, unpolished style: inconditum dicendi genus (Brut. 69. 242)
- flowers of rhetoric; embellishments of style: lumina, flores dicendi (De Or. 3. 25. 96)
- to embellish a narrative: dicendo ornare aliquid
- to lend lustre to a subject by one's description: dicendo augere, amplificare aliquid (opp. dicendo extenuare aliquid)
- the rules of speech, grammar: leges dicendi
- the construction: constructio, structura verborum, forma dicendi
- to pass the whole day in discussion: dicendi mora diem extrahere, eximere, tollere
- to gain a weak case by clever pleading: causam inferiorem dicendo reddere superiorem (λόγον κρείττω ποιειν) (Brut. 8. 30)
- I have a few words to say on this: mihi quaedam dicenda sunt de hac re