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1. 말하다, 언급하다, 이야기하다
2. 선언하다, 선포하다, 확언하다

1. I say, utter; mention; talk, speak.
2. I declare, state. I affirm, assert (positively).

예문

• dicebar sanctus, dicebar humilis et disertus. (Jerome, Saint, Epistulae. Selections., Ad Asellam 3:4)

  (히에로니무스, 편지들, 3:4)

• haec mihi proficiscenti non proponebantur sed saepe triduo, summa cum gloria dicebar esse rediturus 'quid tu igitur? (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus, LIBER PRIMVS, letter 4 4:1)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 퀸투스와 주고 받은 편지들, , 4:1)

• dicebar debuisse cum Pompeio proficisci. (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus, LIBER VNDECIMVS AD ATTICVM, letter 7 6:9)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 아티쿠스에게 보낸 편지들, , 6:9)

• Felix dicebar eramque. (P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 7 58:7)

  (푸블리우스 오비디우스 나소, 변신 이야기, Book 7권 58:7)

• Dixitque Deus: "Fiat lux". Et facta est lux. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Genesis, 1 1:3)

  하느님께서 말씀하시기를 “빛이 생겨라.” 하시자 빛이 생겼다. (불가타 성경, 창세기, 1장 1:3)

유의어 사전

1. Dicere denotes to say, as conveying information, in reference to the hearer, in opp. to tacere, like the neutral word loqui. Cic. Rull. ii. 1. Ver. ii. 1, 71, 86. Plin. Ep. iv. 20. vii. 6, like λέγειν; but aio expresses an affirmation, with reference to the speaker, in opp. to nego. Cic. Off. iii. 23. Plaut. Rud. ii. 4, 14. Terent. Eun. ii. 2, 21, like φάναι. 2. Ait is in construction with an indirect form of speech, and therefore generally governs an infinitive; whereas inquit is in construction with a direct form of speech, and therefore admits an indicative, imperative, or conjunctive. 3. Aio denotes the simple affirmation of a proposition by merely expressing it, whereas asseverare, affirmare, contendere, denote an emphatic affirmation; asseverare is to affirm in earnest, in opp. to a jocular, or even light affirmation, jocari. Cic. Brut. 85; affirmare, to affirm as certain, in opp. to doubts and rumors, dubitare, Divin. ii. 3, 8; contendere, to affirm against contradiction, and to maintain one’s opinion, in opp. to yielding it up, or renouncing it. 4. Dicere (δεῖξαι) denotes to say, without any accessory notion, whereas loqui (λακεῖν), as a transitive verb, with the contemptuous accessory notion that that which is said is mere idle talk. Cic. Att. xiv. 4. Horribile est quæ loquantur, quæ minitentur. 5. Loqui denotes speaking in general; fabulari, a good-humored, or, at least, pleasant mode of speaking, to pass away the time, in which no heed is taken of the substance and import of what is said, like λαλεῖν; lastly, dicere, as a neuter verb, denotes a speech prepared according to the rules of art, a studied speech, particularly from the rostrum, like λέγειν. Liv. xlv. 39. Tu, centurio, miles, quid de imperatore Paulo senatus decreverit potius quam quid Sergio Galba fabuletur audi, et hoc dicere me potius quam illum audi; ille nihil præterquam loqui, et id ipsum maledice et maligne didicit. Cic. Brut. 58. Scipio sane mihi bene et loqui videtur et dicere. Orat. iii. 10. Neque enim conamur docere eum dicere qui loqui nesciat. Orat. 32. Muren. 34, 71. Suet. Cl. 4. Qui tam ἀσαφῶς loquatur, qui possit quum declamat σαφῶς dicere quæ dicenda sunt non video. 6. Fari (φάναι) denotes speaking, as the mechanical use of the organs of speech to articulate sounds and words, nearly in opp. to infantem esse; whereas loqui (λακεῖν), as the means of giving utterance to one’s thoughts, in opp. to tacere. And as fari may be sometimes limited to the utterance of single words, it easily combines with the image of an unusual, imposing, oracular brevity, as in the decrees of fate, fati; whereas loqui, as a usual mode of speaking, is applicable to excess in speaking, loquacitas. (iv. 1.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein