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decora

decora is a Latin form of decus, meaning “ornament, honor, glory; beauty, grace; (pl.) distinctions”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 108 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.97: … o praeter vestigia violatae religionis nomenque P. Scipionis reliquit; hostium spolia, monumenta imperatorum, decora atque ornamenta fanorum posthac his praeclaris nominibus amissis in instrumento atque in supellectile Verris …

All forms of decus (declension table)

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.