decus

See also: déçus

Esperanto

Verb

decus

  1. conditional of deci

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dekos (“dignity”), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱos (“that which is proper”), from *deḱ- (“take, perceive”).[1] Compare with decor.

Pronunciation

Noun

decus n (genitive decoris); third declension

  1. honor, distinction, glory
    • c. 100-110, Tacitus, Histories: Book 4‎[1]:
      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.
  2. pride, dignity
  3. grace, splendor, ornament, beauty
    Synonyms: faciēs, pulchritūdō, decor
    Antonyms: dēdecus, dehonestāmentum
  4. (in the plural) deeds of honor, honorable achievements
    Synonyms: ausus, ausum, fortia, gestum

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative decus decora
genitive decoris decorum
dative decorī decoribus
accusative decus decora
ablative decore decoribus
vocative decus decora

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 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

Further reading

  • “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.
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