dixit

American  

[dik-sit] / ˈdɪk sɪt /

noun

1. an utterance.

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Etymology

Origin of dixit

1620–30; < Latin: he has said

Example Sentences

Today’s decision reveals California’s considerable wingspan: That case’s ipse dixit now apparently governs all APA challenges to grant-funding determinations that the government asks us to address in the context of an emergency stay application.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam."

From Time Magazine Archive

Caput e foramine extraxit, aliquamdiu meditatus est, deinde caput iterum immisit et dixit: 'Quaeso bona venia, die mihi: ubi est Lepus?'

From Time Magazine Archive

I was afraid he might push out, because he was, in a way a human dynamo and, at the time of his supremacy, might have controlled 150,000 votes in Indiana by his "ipse dixit!"

From Time Magazine Archive

And still the bells pealed joyfully on, from the villages on the plains and hill-sides, from the rocky castled heights, from the depths of the forest— "Io! revixit, Sicuti dixit, Pius illæsus, Funere Jesus!"

From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle