decorum

Learned borrowing from Latin decōrum, neuter form of decōrus (“proper, decent”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈkɔːɹəm/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
• Hyphenation: de‧co‧rum

decorum (countable and uncountable, plural decorums)

1. (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior.

   Synonyms: decency, courtesy, propriety, etiquette

   • 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch (pseudonym; Raphael Simon), This Isn't What It Looks Like, ch. 4

     It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.

   • 2020 September 29, Jonathan Martin; Alexander Burns, “With Cross Talk, Lies and Mockery, Trump Tramples Decorum in Debate With Biden”, in New York Times‎:

     Mr. Trump’s volcanic performance appeared to be the gambit of a president seeking to tarnish his opponent by any means available, unbounded by norms of accuracy and decorum and unguided by a calculated sense of how to sway the electorate or assuage voters’ reservations about his leadership.

2. (countable) A convention of social behavior.

• Cudmore

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deˈkoː.rum/, [d̪ɛˈkoːrʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈko.rum/, [d̪eˈkɔːrum]

Noun use of the neuter form of decōrus (“becoming, fitting, proper”).

decōrum n (genitive decōrī); second declension

1. seemliness, propriety

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “decorum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decorum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

decōrum

1. inflection of decōrus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

decōrum

1. genitive plural of decor

• dekorum

Unadapted borrowing from Latin decōrum. Doublet of dekoracja and dekorować.

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈkɔ.rum/
• Rhymes: -ɔrum
• Syllabification: do‧co‧rum

decorum n

1. (literature) decorum (principle of classical rhetoric, poetry, and theatrical theory concerning the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject)
2. (anthropology) decorum (appropriate social behavior; propriety)

• decorum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• decorum in Polish dictionaries at PWN