dĕcentĭa — Lewis & Short
dĕcentĭa, ae, f.decens,
I comeliness, decency:
colorum et figurarum (with venustas),Cic. N. D. 2, 58; id. de Or. 3, 52, 200.
The corpus record — Latin
decentia
decentia · f
comeliness, decency
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- decentiam Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.145.p2
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.