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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• witticism: dictērium (a bon mot): you utter your w.s on all, dicteria dicis in omnes, Mart. 6, 44, 3: there seems to be no other Latin substantive in the singular for a witticism: for the plural use facetiae, sales, joci: v. wit, waggery. Phr.: a good w.! facete dictum! Pl. Capt. 1, 2, 73: the Sicilians are never so hard put to it as not to have some w. à propos, nunquam tam male est Siculis quin aliquid facete et commode dicant, Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 95.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• WITTICISM
facete, acute, salse dictum; plur., facetiae, argutiae, dicteria.