The corpus record — Latin

decoro

decoro · v. a

to decorate, adorn, embellish, grace, beautify

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 3 · 3.96/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
Pro Archia Poeta 1 · 3.21/10k
Pro Q. Ligario 1 · 3.05/10k

Densest 12 of 85 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dĕcŏro — Lewis & Short

dĕcŏro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.decus,

I to decorate, adorn, embellish, grace, beautify (class, and freq.).

I Lit., with abl.: Larem corona nostrum decorari volo, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 1: oppidum ex pecunia sua locis communibus monumentisque, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 46; Verg. A. 6, 217: templa novo saxo, Hor. Od. 2, 15, 20: dissignatorem lictoribus atris, surrounds, id. Ep. 1, 7, 6, etc.: quae tuos digitos decorat, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 58; cf. so without abl., Tib. 2, 2, 6: nescias an te generum beati Phyllidis flavae decorent parentes, Hor. Od. 2, 4, 14; Liv. 1, 26 et saep. —

II Trop., to decorate, distinguish, honor, with abl.: nemo me lacrumis decoret nec funera fletu Faxit, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34; cf.: egregias animas ... decorate supremis Muneribus, Verg. A. 11, 25: quem populus R. singularibus honoribus decorasset, Cic. Balb. 6 fin.; cf.: aliquem amplissimis honoribus et praemiis, id. de Or. 1, 54, 232: O clementiam admirabilem atque omni laude decorandam! id. Lig. 2 fin.: delubra deorum pietate, domos suas gloriā, Sall. C. 12, 4: nec prave factis decorari versibus opto, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 266: inani vocis sono decoratum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 41, 119 et saep. —Without abl.: quam (remp.) ipse decorarat atque auxerat, id. Pis. 12, 27; id. Brut. 75, 265: bene nummatum decorat Suadela Venusque, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 38.—Hence, dĕ-cŏrātus, a, um, P. a., adorned, beautiful.—In sup.: orationes, Boeth. Arist. Elench. Soph. 1, 12, p. 743.

In the wild

decorem Tacitus, de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 24.2
decoras Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 15.46
decorauit Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 4.3.10
decoretur Silius Italicus, Punica 10.520
decorant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.1.p5
decorandi Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.6.5

6 of 179 attestations shown.

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