Translation
to speak, say; to foretell
Examples
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The king spoke such words.
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Thus the father speaks to his son.
futura .
The priest foretells things to come.
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Having said this, he withdrew from the city.
Fari .
The boy could not yet speak.
For, fari, fatus sum is a first conjugation deponent and heavily defective: in practice you meet fatur, fabor, fare, fari, fatus and very little else. It is archaic and poetic, and prose reaches for dico or loquor instead, so an occurrence of fatur in a text is usually a signal about register rather than about meaning.
Its family is enormous and worth the detour. Fatum is "what has been spoken", hence fate. Fama is what people say. Fabula is a story. Infans is one who cannot yet speak, so an infant. Fas is what divine speech permits, and therefore what is lawful. Nefarious, ineffable, preface and confess all sit somewhere on the same root. The word itself nearly died; the words it fathered did not.
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