The corpus record — Latin

áddecet

it behooves

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Where it lives

Persa 2 · 2.54/10k
Rudens 3 · 2.53/10k
Poenulus 2 · 1.81/10k
Pseudolus 2 · 1.81/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ad-dĕcet — Lewis & Short

ad-dĕcet, ēre, 2,

I v. impers. [ad, intens.], it behooves, it becomes, it is fit or proper that (used only in Enn. and Plaut., in the latter very often), constr. with acc. or with acc. and inf.: sed virum virtute vera vivere animatum addecet, Enn. ap. Gell. 7, 17, 10 (Trag. v. 338, ed. Vahl.; Rib. p. 52): ut matrem addecet familias, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 80: meo me aequum est morigerum patri, ejus studio servire addecet, id. Am. 3, 4, 21; nam peculi probam nihil habere addecet Clam virum, id. Cas. 2, 2, 26; so id. Bacch. 1, 2, 20; id. Most. 4, 2, 21; id. Ps. 1, 5, 156; id. Trin. 1, 2, 41.

In the wild

6 of 18 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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