verb/diʁ/
to say, to tell (to express through speech); to tell (to order, to advise); to say, to tell (to set out in writing); to say (often used in the sense of responding to an objection); to say, to tell of (to celebrate, to sing, to narrate)
“— Parfaitement... et il a dit à ces dames que c'était un étranger, arrivé récemment à Paris et colossalement riche.” — — Perfectly…and he told these ladies that he was a foreigner, recently arrived in Paris and colossally rich.
Inherited from Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin dīcō, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti (“to show, point out”).