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decuit

decuit is a Latin form of decet, meaning “it is fitting, becomes”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 63 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 5.30: … consules non adessent, ieci sententia mea maximo vestro consensu fundamenta rei publicae, serius omnino quam decuit—nec enim ante potui—sed tamen si ex eo tempore dies nullus intermissus esset, bellum profecto nullum haberemu …

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.