To speak, declare, or dictate; an archaic or poetic form meaning to pronounce or utter words.
From Latin 'dicere' (to speak, say). An obsolete or very rare verb form used in older English literature and poetry, surviving mainly in compounds like 'dictate.'
This is the ancestor word that gave birth to 'dictate,' 'diction,' 'dictionary,' 'predict,' and 'verdict'—it's basically the Latin root that means 'to say' and is hiding in tons of English words!
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