The corpus record — Latin

dēcarmĭno

dēcarmĭno · v. a

to make prose

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What it meant

dēcarmĭno — Lewis & Short

dēcarmĭno, avi, 1, v. a.de-carmen,

I to make prose of verse, to disarrange the order of the words in a verse: sed hic ordo nobis verborum faciendus est, ut versus hujus decarminata contextio ipsa se magis exponere videatur, Cassiod. in Psa. 130, 3, 4.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.