dĕcenter — Lewis & Short
dĕcenter, v. decet,
I P. a. fin.
The corpus record — Latin
decenter
decenter
P. a. fin
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
- Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
- Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
- Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
- Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
- Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
- Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
- Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
- Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
- Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
- Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
- Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- decenter Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.19.3
- decenter Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.1.69
- decenter Tibullus, Elegiae 3.8.14
- decenter Apuleius, Apologia 63
- decenter Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.VII.p3
- decenter Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.4.7
6 of 23 attestations shown.
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.