Reconstruction:Latin/dire
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Syncopation of dīcere, perhaps by analogy with audīre and fāre (from facere).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*dīre (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance)
References edit
- Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907) An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 408