indecor

Seemingly from in- +‎ decus, decor- (compare dēgener from genus, gener-). Functionally a variant of indecōrus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.dɛ.kɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin̪.d̪e.kor]

indecor (genitive indecoris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. alternative form of indecōrus
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 7.231:

     Nōn erimus rēgno‿indecorēs, nec vestra ferētur

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 11.423:

     Tempestās), cūr indecorēs in līmine prīmo

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 11.845:

     Nōn tamen indecorem tua tē rēgīna relīquit

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.25:

     Nec genus indecorēs. Sine me‿haec haud mollia fātu

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.679:

     Morte patī, neque me‿indecorem, germāna, vidēbis

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Rare and mostly used in poetry. Note that the more common indecōrus cannot be used in dactylic meters because it contains a long-short-long syllable sequence. Servius the grammarian, observing that most masculine nouns ending in -or form a genitive singular in -ōris (with long -ō-), supposes that this word might lack a nominative singular. As an alternative to this, some dictionaries hypothesize a two-termination nominative singular, indecoris/indecore.

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

• “indecor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• indecor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.