Latin verb
dīcō
dīcō, dīcere, dīxī, dictum
dīcō is a Latin verb. In the 6 analysed lines it was read in, it means “He said” (once), “spoke” (once), “they called” (once) and “to be told” (once).
In the texts
Each line as the reader shows it: every word in its case colour with its meaning underneath, and arcs from dīcō to the words it goes with.
Dixitque Deus:
And God said:
Dixitque: the main verb of the sentence.
“Ante hos sex menses male,” ait, “dixisti mihi.”
“Before these six months, you spoke ill to me,” he said.
dixisti: stands beside ait.
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora;
My mind inclines to tell of forms changed into new bodies.
dicere: completes fert.
temporibusque Augusti dicendis non defuere decora ingenia, donec gliscente adulatione deterrerentur.
And for telling of the times of Augustus, fitting talents were not lacking, until they were deterred by growing flattery.
dicendis: describes temporibusque as a participle or clause.
“Pater hercle tuus,” ille inquit, “male dixit mihi.”
“By Hercules, your father,” that man said, “spoke ill to me.”
dixit: stands beside inquit.
…caelum unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe, quem dixere chaos: rudis indigestaque moles nec quicquam nisi pondus iners…
Before the sea and lands and the heaven which covers all things, there was one face of nature in the whole world, which they called chaos: a rude and undigested mass, and nothing but inert weight and the discordant seeds of things not well joined together, heaped together in the same place.
dixere: relative clause describing vultus.
Forms
Every form of the word in these texts, with what it is.
| Form | Grammar | Read |
|---|---|---|
| dicendis | Dative · Plural · Neuter · Gerundive | 1 |
| dicere | Present · Active · Infinitive | 1 |
| dixere | 3rd person · Plural · Perfect · Indicative · Active | 1 |
| dixisti | 2nd person · Singular · Perfect · Indicative · Active | 1 |
| dixit | 3rd person · Singular · Perfect · Indicative · Active | 1 |
| dixitque | 3rd person · Singular · Perfect · Indicative · Active | 1 |
Words it goes with
Joined to dīcō by an arc in these lines, most often first.