dedecus

From dē (“from, away or down from”) + decus (“glory, honor, dignity”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.de.kus/, [ˈd̪eːd̪ɛkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.de.kus/, [ˈd̪ɛːd̪ekus]

dēdecus n (genitive dēdecoris); third declension

1. Disgrace, dishonor, infamy, shame, discredit.

   Synonym: dehonestāmentum

   Antonyms: faciēs, pulchritūdō, decor, decus

2. That which causes shame; a disgrace, blot, blemish.
3. A shameful act; vice, turpitude.
4. indecency

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “dedecus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dedecus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dedecus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dedecus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.