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decere

decere is a Latin form of decet, meaning “it is fitting, becomes”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 12.1: etsi minime decere videtur, patres conscripti, falli, decipi, errare eum cui vos maximis saepe de rebus adsentiamini, consolor m …

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.