dictame
French, noun/dik.tam/
dictame is spelled D-I-C-T-A-M-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dictame is a French masculine noun meaning “dittany, dictamnus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante aromatique de la famille des labiées, passant chez les Grecs pour être un puissant vulnéraire”.
What does dictame mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedittany, dictamnus
- 2
masculinebalm
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante aromatique de la famille des labiées, passant chez les Grecs pour être un puissant vulnéraire. 2. Autre nom de la fraxinelle, de la famille des rutacées. 3. Adoucissement, consolation des souffrances morales. 4. Synonyme d'arrow-root.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dictame
- dictames plural
- dictamne obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dictame?
- /dik.tam/
- \dik.tam\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dictame
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dictame in French?
dictame appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).