indecor

Latin

Etymology

Seemingly from in- +‎ decus, decor- (compare dēgener from genus, gener-). Functionally a variant of indecōrus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.de.kor/, [ˈɪn̪d̪ɛkɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.de.kor/, [ˈin̪d̪ekor]

Adjective

indecor (genitive indecoris); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. Alternative form of indecōrus
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 7.231:

     Nōn erimus rēgno‿indecorēs, nec vestra ferētur

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 11.423:

     Tempestās), cūr indecorēs in līmine prīmo

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 11.845:

     Nōn tamen indecorem tua tē rēgīna relīquit

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.25:

     Nec genus indecorēs. Sine me‿haec haud mollia fātu

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.679:

     Morte patī, neque me‿indecorem, germāna, vidēbis

Usage notes

Rare and mostly used in poetry. Note that the more common indecōrus cannot be used in dactylic meters because it contains a long-short-long syllable sequence. Servius the grammarian, observing that most masculine nouns ending in -or form a genitive singular in -ōris (with long -ō-), supposes that this word might lack a nominative singular. As an alternative to this, some dictionaries hypothesize a two-termination nominative singular, indecoris/indecore.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	indecor			indecorēs	indecora
genitive	indecoris			indecorum
dative	indecorī			indecoribus
accusative	indecorem	indecor		indecorēs	indecora
ablative	indecore			indecoribus
vocative	indecor			indecorēs	indecora

References

• “indecor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• indecor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.