decreto

decreto is a Latin form of decerno, meaning “decide, decree”.

It can also be a form of decretum, “decree, decision”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun or perfect passive participle dative singular masculine or perfect passive participle ablative singular neuter or perfect passive participle ablative singular masculine.

Found 141 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.13.6: si qui aut privatus aut populus eorum decreto non stetit, sacrificiis interdicunt. Haec poena apud eos est gravissima.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 7.10.2: Decreto, inquit, suo Athenienses caverant, ut qui Megaris civis esset, si intulisse Athenas pedem prensus esset, ut ea res ei homini capitalis esset;

All forms of decerno (conjugation 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.