dedecus Latin · revision 30656

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *deḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.dɛ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.de.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēdecus''' ''n'' (genitive dēdecoris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|decus|t1=down from, away|t2=honour, dignity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan lists it with [[m|la|decus]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|decet|t=it is fitting]], from [[itc-pro|*dek-ē-|t=fits, is right]] and [[ine-pro|*deḱ-|t=to take, receive]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has ''advorsārī sine dēdecore … haud possumus'', “we cannot oppose it without disgrace”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Dēdecus'' is discredit, disgrace, dishonour, shame, and in the plural instances of disgrace.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a person or thing that brings shame (Tacitus: a disgrace to his ancestors), a shameful act or vice, and a shameful or ugly appearance (Ovid, of the ass's ears of Midas).^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “shame, dishonor, disgrace, vice”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''sine dēdecore''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it often.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the ears of Midas.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus: ''maiōribus suīs dēdecus''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|disgrace]], [[m|en|dishonour]], shame, [[m|en|infamy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A cause of shame, a disgrace, blot.^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

+ # A shameful act, vice.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # An ugly, shameful appearance.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dedecorosus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēdecorāmentum]]

+ * [[dēdecorātiō]]

+ * [[dēdecorātor]]

+ * [[dēdecorō]]

+ * [[decus]]

+ * [[decet]]

+ * [[ignōminia]]

+ * [[turpitūdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}