decet
English
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| Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tenth Abbreviated ordinal: 10th Latinate ordinal: denary Adverbial: ten times Multiplier: tenfold Latinate multiplier: decuple Germanic collective: tensome Collective of n parts: decuplet Greek or Latinate collective: decad, decade Metric collective prefix: deca- Greek collective prefix: deca- Latinate collective prefix: deca- Fractional: tenth Metric fractional prefix: deci- Elemental: decuplet Number of musicians: decet Number of years: decade, decennium | ||||
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Italian decetto, from dieci (“ten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛˈsɛt/
Noun
decet (plural decets)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *dekēt (third person singular, from earlier *dekējeti), from Proto-Indo-European *dḱeh₁-yé-ti, Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-, the same root as doceō.
Parallel semantics in Sanskrit दक्षति (dáksati, “is proper, seemly, fitting; conforms, is satisfactory”), Ancient Greek δοκεῖ (dokeî, “seems good, correct, proper”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdɛ.kɛt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd̪ɛː.t͡ʃet̪]
Verb
decet (present infinitive decēre, perfect active decuit); second conjugation, third person-only, no passive, no supine stem
Conjugation
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
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| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | — | decet | — | — | decent | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | decēbat | — | — | decēbant | |||||||
| future | — | — | decēbit | — | — | decēbunt | |||||||
| perfect | — | — | decuit | — | — | decuērunt, decuēre | |||||||
| pluperfect | — | — | decuerat | — | — | decuerant | |||||||
| future perfect | — | — | decuerit | — | — | decuerint | |||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | — | deceat | — | — | deceant | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | decēret | — | — | decērent | |||||||
| perfect | — | — | decuerit | — | — | decuerint | |||||||
| pluperfect | — | — | decuisset | — | — | decuissent | |||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | future | — | — | decētō | — | — | decentō | ||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | decēre | — | decēns | — | |||||||||
| perfect | decuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| decendī | decendō | decendum | decendō | — | — | ||||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “decet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “decere”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 199