One sentence, said by someone who is allowed to say it, and then left standing. The Latin dictum simply means "a thing said". A useful picture: a line lifted out of a longer speech or judgment and set down on its own — short enough to quote, and firm enough that people repeat it instead of arguing with it.
From the word’s history
Latin dictum, "a thing said", is the neuter past participle of dico, to say. Spanish dicho, a saying, comes from the same place. The English word keeps both halves of that: something said, and something now finished and quotable.
拉丁文 dictum 是動詞 dico（說）的過去分詞形，意思就是「被說出來的東西」；西班牙文的 dicho（諺語）也是同一條線。英文把兩層都留下來了：一句話被說出口，而且已經說完、定型，可以被別人整句搬走。
Wiktionary, "dictum"
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
dictumnoun/ˈdɪk.təm/
- 1
An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- This should not surprise us who know that van Gogh wrote: 'To paint and to love women is incompatible'; van Gogh was right for himself, which does not mean that he was right for everybody, and I will not draw from his dictum the probably incorrect conclusion that 'To paint and to love literature is incompatible.'
- […]a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound[…]
- 2
A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- 3
The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- 4
An arbitrament or award.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。