dicere

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdi.t͡ʃe.re/
  • Rhymes: -itʃere
  • Hyphenation: dì‧ce‧re

Verb

dìcere (first-person singular present dìco, first-person singular past historic dìssi, past participle détto, first-person singular future dirò, second-person singular imperative dì' or (with syntactic gemination after the verb, with written accent) , auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (archaic, Romanesco) alternative form of dire

Conjugation

Further reading

  • dicere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1

Verb

dīcere

  1. inflection of dīcō (to say):
    1. second-person singular present passive indicative/imperative
    2. present active infinitive

Pronunciation 2

Verb

dīcēre

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative of dīcō (to say)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

dicēre

  1. second-person singular present passive subjunctive of dicō (to dedicate)

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dīcere.

Pronunciation

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈriːt͡ʃərə]

Verb

dicere

  1. to say

References

  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882), “dicere”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano[1]