decet
English edit
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| Cardinal: ten Ordinal: tenth Latinate ordinal: denary Adverbial: ten times Multiplier: tenfold Latinate multiplier: decuple Group collective: tensome Multipart collective: 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 Greek prefix: decato- Number of musicians: decet Number of years: decade, decennium | ||||
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Italian decetto, from dieci (“ten”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
decet (plural decets)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *dekēō (third person singular *dekēt), from earlier *dekējō, from Proto-Indo-European *dḱeh₁-yé-ti, Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-, the same root as doceō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈde.ket/, [ˈd̪ɛkɛt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.t͡ʃet/, [ˈd̪ɛːt͡ʃet̪]
Verb edit
decet (present infinitive decēre, perfect active decuit); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem, third person only
Conjugation edit
This verb is only used in 3rd-person forms, present and perfect infinitives, and present active participle.
| Conjugation of decet (second conjugation, no supine stem, third person only, active only) | |||||||
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| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| 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 | present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| future | — | — | decētō | — | — | decentō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | decēre | decuisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | decēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| decendī | decendō | decendum | decendō | — | — | ||
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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