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decreverunt

decreverunt is a Latin form of decerno, meaning “decide, decree”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.180: … aene sint litterae. cum id quoque constabit, vos iam hoc me tacito intellegetis: si illi qui hoc istius causa decreverunt equites Romani nunc idem in eum iudices essent, istum sine dubio condemnarent, de quo litteras eas quae istiu …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.17.9: decreuerunt enim ut cum populus regem iussisset, id sic ratum esset si patres auctores fierent. hodie quoque in legibus magistratibusque rogandis usurpatur idem ius, ui adempta: priusquam populus suffragium ineat, in incertum comitiorum euentum patres auctores fiunt.

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.