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
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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..." - P
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..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...passuque incedit inerti. utque deam vidit formaque armisque decoram, ingemuit vultumque una ac suspiria duxit. pallor..."