Decorum Root Meaning

Decorum is proper and polite behavior.

Decorum root meaning. Literary and dramatic propriety. Formal politeness from latin decorum that which is seemly noun use of neuter of adjective decorus fit proper from decor beauty elegance charm grace ornament from decus. Decency courtesy propriety etiquette.

Decorum countable and uncountable plural decorums uncountable appropriate social behavior. Erial stuck to pure manners and decorum knowing that any sign of affection to any member of the regiment might drive dan mad with jealousy or grief. The late old latin form dēvos regularly lost its v before a rounded.

It was sort of a finishing school. Decorum n 1560s that which is proper or fitting in a literary or artistic composition 1580s propriety of speech behavior or dress. This is the meaning of deus.

Cognate with welsh duw lithuanian dievas persian دیو div. The corresponding adjective is decorous meaning well behaved in a particular. Decorum definition dignified propriety of behavior speech dress etc.

But with this pope still up and about and a lame duck. Fitness according to strict neoclassic decorum only the aristocracy had the right to appear in tragedy irving babbitt. An o stem derivative from dyew sky heaven from which also diēs and iuppiter.

These nonchalant brutalities seem at first at odds with the genteel decorum that mostly cloaks late 19th century culture. Starts with d ends with m four consonants three vowels and three syllables. That which is proper or fitting in a literary or artistic composition 1580s propriety of speech see definitions of decorum.