dedecet
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
From dē- (“away from, out of”) + decet (“it is decent, proper”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdeː.dɛ.kɛt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdɛː.de.t͡ʃet]
Verb
dēdecet (present infinitive dēdecēre, perfect active dēdecuit); second conjugation, third person-only, no passive, no supine stem
- (with accusative) to be unseemly or unsuitable; to be unbecoming
Conjugation
- The first-person singular perfect active indicative, dēdecuī, is attested in the Thebaid by Statius to mean “to dishonor”; elsewhere, this verb is only used in 3rd-person forms, present and perfect infinitives, and present active participle.
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | — | dēdecet | — | — | dēdecent | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | dēdecēbat | — | — | dēdecēbant | |||||||
| future | — | — | dēdecēbit | — | — | dēdecēbunt | |||||||
| perfect | — | — | dēdecuit | — | — | dēdecuērunt, dēdecuēre | |||||||
| pluperfect | — | — | dēdecuerat | — | — | dēdecuerant | |||||||
| future perfect | — | — | dēdecuerit | — | — | dēdecuerint | |||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | — | dēdeceat | — | — | dēdeceant | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | dēdecēret | — | — | dēdecērent | |||||||
| perfect | — | — | dēdecuerit | — | — | dēdecuerint | |||||||
| pluperfect | — | — | dēdecuisset | — | — | dēdecuissent | |||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | future | — | — | dēdecētō | — | — | dēdecentō | ||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | dēdecēre | — | dēdecēns | — | |||||||||
| perfect | dēdecuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| dēdecendī | dēdecendō | dēdecendum | dēdecendō | — | — | ||||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: disdire
- Borrowings:
- → Italian: desdecere
References
- “dedecet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dedecet”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.