decreto
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decerno, decernere, decrevi, decretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
decide/settle/determine/resolve; decree/declare/ordain; judge; vote for/contend;; decrease; abate; diminish, dwindle, shrink; (in number/amount); be subtracted;; lose vigor/intensity, decline/weaken/fade influence/reputation; grow shorter;
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.abl. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part.dat. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →decretum, decreti:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dogma, principle, doctrine; idea held w/conviction; course of action, resolve;; decree, ordinance; legal decision, verdict, order (judge), sentence; vote;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...interficere adorsi erant, ne umquam servis indere liceret, decreto publico sanxerunt, quoniam nefas ducerent nomina libertati patriae devota..."Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...iuvenum animos expergebat, Euclidem quam dicebat Socraticum factitavisse. "Decreto" inquit "suo Athenienses caverant, ut, qui Megaris civis esset..."Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...ipsum eius rei decretum nos legimus. In eo decreto Hadrianus id statuere se dicit requisitis veterum philosophorum..."Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...deae" immolabant, idque ita ex decreto pontificum observatum esse M. Varro dicit, quoniam..."Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...constitutaesse ab hostibus iratissimis poterant? Perit itaque ex decreto suo. Vides posse homines laborem pati: per medias Africae..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...accidere (debuisses enim uelle, si scisses omnia ex decreto dei fieri: flere, queri et gemere desciscere est). Quid..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...series rotat, cuius haec prima lex est, stare decreto. [36,1] Quid enim intellogis fatum? Existimo necessitatem rerum..."Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...Eius igitur leges, quoniam videbantur impendio acerbiores, non decreto iussoque, set tacito inlitteratoque Atheniensium consensu oblitteratae sunt..."