The corpus record — Latin

dedecor

adj., unseemly, unbecoming, shameful, vile (rare): dedecorem amplexi vitam, Stat. Th. 11, 760: alga, Aus. Ep. 9, 5…

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Where it lives

Pro P. Quinctio 4 · 4.63/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
De Pudicitia 4 · 2.98/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
Ad Uxorem 1 · 2.41/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k

Densest 12 of 76 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-dĕcor — Lewis & Short

dē-dĕcor, ŏris,

I adj., unseemly, unbecoming, shameful, vile (rare): dedecorem amplexi vitam, Stat. Th. 11, 760: alga, Aus. Ep. 9, 5: dedecores inultique caedebantur, Sall. Hist. 3, 91 (ap. Prisc. p. 699 P.).

In the wild

dedecoris Cicero, Letters to Atticus 9.10.9
dedecoris Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.6.28.8
dedecoris Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.19.16
dedecore Cicero, De Divinatione 2.22
dedecorum Tacitus, Annales 3.p32
dedecori Tacitus, Annales 15.p67

6 of 149 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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