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decrevit

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

Found 137 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.53.3: Caesar Fabium cum sua legione remittit in hiberna, ipse cum tribus legionibus circum Samarobrivam trinis hibernis hiemare constituit et, quod tanti motus Galliae exstiterant, totam hiemem ipse ad exercitum manere decrevit.

Suetonius, Divus Julius 42.2: de pecuniis mutuis disiecta nouarum tabularum expectatione, quae crebro mouebatur, decreuit tandem, ut debitores creditoribus satis facerent per aestimationem possessionum, quanti quasque ante ciuile b …

Martial, Epigrammata 1.78.4: Decrevit Stygios Festus adire lacus.

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.