decor

• décor

Borrowed from French décor.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪkɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /deɪˈkoɹ/, /dɪˈkoɹ/, /ˈdeɪkoɹ/, /ˈdɛkoɹ/^[1]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈdæekoː/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

decor (countable and uncountable, plural decors)

1. The style of decoration of a room or building.

   Her living room had a lush Persian-style decor.

2. A stage setting; scenery; set; backdrop.

• OCRed, Coder, credo, cored, coder, Dorce

Borrowed from Latin decōrum. Doublet of decòrum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dəˈkor]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [deˈkor]

decor m (plural decors)

1. décor, decoration, adornment
2. decorum, propriety

   Synonym: decòrum

• “decor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from French décor, from Latin decor or decus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /deːˈkɔr/

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• Hyphenation: de‧cor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

decor n (plural decors, diminutive decortje n)

1. stage setting, decor, scenery
2. decor; decoration

• decorbouw

• Afrikaans: dekor
• → Indonesian: dekor

From decet + -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛ.kɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.kor]

decor m (genitive decōris); third declension

1. elegance, grace
2. beauty, charm

   Synonyms: pulchritūdō, faciēs, decus

   Antonyms: dēdecus, dehonestāmentum

Third-declension noun.

• decōrus

• → French: décor (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: decoro
• → Spanish: decoro

• “decor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “decor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French décor.

decor n (plural decoruri)

1. decor