Masculine

decente

Meaning

  1. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) decent, decorous, seemly
  2. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) proper
  3. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) reasonable
  4. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) chaste

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
de‧cèn‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/deˈt͡ʃɛn.te/
Etymology

From Latin decentem, accusative case form of decēns (“appropriate, fitting”), present active participle of decet (“[it] is fitting”).

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