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decore

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

Found 79 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 3.40: … multi aut inimici potentes suis virtutem praemiis spoliant, ne illa se multis solaciis oblectat maximeque suo decore se ipsa sustentat. Quorum non corpora sunt in caelum elata; neque enim natura pateretur, ut id, quod esset e …

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.