dialectice

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *-s

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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.

Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.

Ancient Greek διά (diá)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti

Proto-Hellenic *légō

Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)

Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Hellenic *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰλεκτῐκός (dĭălektĭkós)bor.

Latin dialecticus

Latin -ē

Latin dialecticē

From dialecticus + -ē.

Adverb

dialecticē (not comparable)

1. dialectically

Adjective

dialectice

1. vocative masculine singular of dialecticus

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δῐᾰλεκτῐκή (dĭălektĭkḗ).

Noun

dialecticē f (genitive dialecticēs); first declension

1. alternative form of dialectica

Declension

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).

	singular	plural
nominative	dialecticē	dialecticae
genitive	dialecticēs	dialecticārum
dative	dialecticae	dialecticīs
accusative	dialecticēn	dialecticās
ablative	dialecticē	dialecticīs
vocative	dialecticē	dialecticae

References

• “dialectice”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dialectice”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dialectice”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) an accomplished dialectician: homo in dialecticis versatissimus
    
  • (ambiguous) to be ignorant of even the elements of logic: dialecticis ne imbutum quidem esse