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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Naevius|origins=la decet}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈdɛ.kɔr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdɛː.kor]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''decor''' ''m'' (genitive decōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[decet]] “it is fitting” with the suffix [[-or]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Naevius, who also uses it as an adjective “handsome”.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Naevius c. 235–200 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a pleasing appearance, good looks, beauty, grace, as in Horace, of things decorativeness, as in Livy, and an ornament, as in Lucretius.^(OLD 2012) It meant non-visual beauty, elegance, charm, as in Ovid, and seemliness, propriety, as Horace's rule that each character and age must be given its proper quality, and Vitruvius' fitness.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis and Short call it a poetic word, perhaps not in prose before the Augustan period.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant beauty, comeliness, elegance, grace.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it meant beauty of the human form, of a place, an object or literary style.^(DMLBS) French ''décor'' and Italian and Spanish ''decoro'' are borrowings.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it as an adjective.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of an ornament.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of beauty and propriety.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Beauty, grace, comeliness.^(OLD 2012)
+ # An ornament.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Elegance, charm.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Seemliness, propriety.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[decōrus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[decet]]
+ * [[decus]]
+ * [[dēdecor]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ An adjective ''decor'', “handsome”, is found in Naevius, Sallust and Apuleius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}