{
    "normalForm": true,
    "headword": "DECĒNS, -entis",
    "etymology": [{
        "period": "PIE",
        "form": "*deḱ-eh₁, *deḱ-es-, *deḱ-no-",
        "def": "'which is received' > 'decoration' > 'dignity'",
        "certitude": true
    }, {
        "period": "PIt",
        "form": "*dek-ē-, *dek-no-, *dek-o/es-",
        "def": "'fits, is right', 'worthy', 'dignity'",
        "certitude": true
    }],
    "dataFormat": "cent",
    "meanings": [{
        "definition": "Right, apt, proper, fitting",
        "construct": "_",
        "group": "_",
        "analysis": [{
            "id": "xznjvuhm",
            "category": "Not modal",
            "emergence": -1,
            "disparition": "None",
            "attestation": "HOR. epist. 1, 1, 11 quid verum atque decens.",
            "certainty": true,
            "relationships": {
                "origins": [],
                "destinations": [{"rel": "ywocw", "cert": true}],
                "unspecified": [{"rel": "mcwbhpu", "cert": true}, {"rel": "yamgrvvi", "cert": true}]
            }
        }]
    }, {
        "definition": "It ought, it is appropriate",
        "construct": "Decens est",
        "group": "_",
        "analysis": [{
            "id": "ywocw",
            "category": "Modal: deontic acceptability",
            "emergence": 1,
            "disparition": "None",
            "attestation": "QUINT. Inst. 11, 1, 78 decentius erit … servare iudicium pudorem. ",
            "certainty": true,
            "relationships": {"origins": [{"rel": "xznjvuhm", "cert": true}], "destinations": [], "unspecified": []}
        }]
    }, {
        "definition": "Nice, elegant, pleasant",
        "construct": "_",
        "group": "_",
        "analysis": [{
            "id": "mcwbhpu",
            "category": "Not modal",
            "emergence": -1,
            "disparition": "None",
            "attestation": "OV. am. 3, 1, 9 forma decens, vestis tenuissima, vultus amantis. ",
            "certainty": true,
            "relationships": {
                "origins": [],
                "destinations": [],
                "unspecified": [{"rel": "xznjvuhm", "cert": true}, {"rel": "yamgrvvi", "cert": true}]
            }
        }]
    }, {
        "definition": "Pure, virtuous, chaste",
        "construct": "_",
        "group": "_",
        "analysis": [{
            "id": "yamgrvvi",
            "category": "Not modal",
            "emergence": -1,
            "disparition": "None",
            "attestation": "HOR. carm. 4, 1, 13 nobilis et decens … puer. ",
            "certainty": true,
            "relationships": {
                "origins": [],
                "destinations": [],
                "unspecified": [{"rel": "xznjvuhm", "cert": true}, {"rel": "mcwbhpu", "cert": true}]
            }
        }]
    }]
}