edictum

From ēdīcō (“I declare, announce, decree”), from ex (“out of, from”) + dīcō (“say, affirm, tell”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈdik.tum/, [eːˈd̪ɪkt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈdik.tum/, [eˈd̪ikt̪um]

ēdictum n (genitive ēdictī); second declension

1. A proclamation, ordinance, edict, decree or manifesto by a magistrate.

   Synonyms: iussus, ēdictiō, praeceptum, nūntius, scītum, dēcrētum, dēcrētiō, mandātum, imperium

2. 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.
3. (by extension) An order, command, edict.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ēdictālis

edictum

1. inflection of edictus:
   1. nominative/vocative/accusative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

• ēdīcō
• ēdictiō
• ēdictō

• “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