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decori

decori is a Latin form of decus, meaning “ornament, honor, glory; beauty, grace; (pl.) distinctions”.

It can also be a form of decor, “beauty, grace, comeliness”.

It can also be a form of decorus, “beautiful, handsome; fitting, proper; (decet) it is fitting”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective or dative singular neuter noun or dative singular masculine noun.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.26: … e meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditum patet, quamquam a pueritia vestigiis ingressus patris et tuis decori vestro non defui, nunc tamen tanto praemio exposito enitar multo vigilantius. Et ille: Tu vero enitere et sic …

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.