noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- (late of dictum.)
- command
- order (Ecc)
- precept
- prescription
- saying/maxim
- Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
- Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
- Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)