decoram
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decorus, decora -um, decorior -or -us, decorissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
beautiful/good looking/handsome/comely; adorned; graceful/elegant (non-visual);; honorable, noble; glorious, decorated; decorous, proper, decent, fitting;
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...nequiquam fortibus aptat. tum galeam Messapi habilem cristisque decoram induit. excedunt castris et tuta capessunt. Interea praemissi equites..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...luce refulsit, os umerosque deo similis; namque ipsa decoram caesariem nato genetrix lumenque iuventae purpureum et laetos oculis..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...passuque incedit inerti. utque deam vidit formaque armisque decoram, ingemuit vultumque una ac suspiria duxit. pallor..."