The corpus record — Latin

dĕcēris

dĕcēris · f

a ten-oared ship

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What it meant

dĕcēris — Lewis & Short

dĕcēris, is, f., = dekh/rhs (sc. nau=s),

I a ten-oared ship, i. e. a ship having ten banks of oars: Liburnicas, Suet. Calig. 37 (acc. to a conject. of Turneb. Adv. 22, 30; lect. vulg. de cedris).

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.