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Verb
decus
- conditional of deci
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *dekos (“dignity”), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱos (“that which is proper”), from *deḱ- (“take, perceive”). Compare with decor.
Pronunciation
Noun
decus n (genitive decoris); third declension
- honor, distinction, glory
c. 100-110, Tacitus, Histories: Book 4:Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.- The ties of loyalty on the one hand, and the necessities of famine on the other, kept the besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy.
- pride, dignity
- grace, splendor, ornament, beauty
- Synonyms: faciēs, pulchritūdō, decor
- Antonyms: dēdecus, dehonestāmentum
- (in the plural) deeds of honor, honorable achievements
- Synonyms: ausus, ausum, fortia, gestum
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
References
- “decus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- decus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “decet”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 164