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Latin
Etymology
From ēdīcō (“I declare, announce, decree”), from ex (“out of, from”) + dīcō (“say, affirm, tell”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ēdictum n (genitive ēdictī); second declension
- A proclamation, ordinance, edict, decree or manifesto by a magistrate.
- Synonyms: iussus, ēdictiō, praeceptum, nūntius, scītum, dēcrētum, dēcrētiō, mandātum, imperium
- 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.
- (by extension) An order, command, edict.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Participle
edictum
- inflection of edictus:
- nominative/vocative/accusative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
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Descendants
References
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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