The corpus record — Latin

dedecoro

v. a., to disgrace, dishonor, bring to shame (class.): mores, quibus boni se dedecorant, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 23: me…

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Where it lives

Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Hecyra 1 · 1.11/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-dĕcŏro — Lewis & Short

dē-dĕcŏro, āvi, ātum, 1,

I v. a., to disgrace, dishonor, bring to shame (class.): mores, quibus boni se dedecorant, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 23: me flagitiis suis, id. Bacch. 3, 3, 95; cf.: se flagitiis, Sall. J. 85, 42; * Suet. Ner. 36; Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 13: et urbis auctoritatem et magistri, Cic. Off. 3, 2, 6; Prop. 3 (4), 22, 36; Hor. Od. 4, 4, 36 (where others read indecorant).

In the wild

dedecorat Plautus, Bacchides 3.3
dedecorem Statius, Thebais 11.760
dedecorantem Cicero, De Officiis 3.6.p1
dedecoravere Sallust, Jugurtha 85.p3
dedecorant Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 1.27
dedecorato Suetonius, Nero 36.2

6 of 16 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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