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deceat

deceat is a Latin form of decet, meaning “it is fitting, becomes”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 124 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.32: … estis. omnia praeteribo quae mihi turpia dictu videbuntur, neque solum quid istum audire, verum etiam quid me deceat dicere considerabo. vos, quaeso, date hoc et concedite pudori meo ut aliquam partem de istius impudentia reti …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.