decretum

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈkreː.tum/, [d̪eːˈkreːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈkre.tum/, [d̪eˈkrɛːt̪um]

From dēcernō (“decide, determine”).

dēcrētum n (genitive dēcrētī); second declension

1. A decision, decree, ordinance, order.

   Synonyms: praeceptum, iussus, ēdictum, ēdictiō, nūntius, scītum, dēcrētiō, mandātum, imperium

2. A principle, opinion.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• dēcrētālis
• dēcrētum horribile

dēcrētum

1. supine of dēcernō

dēcrētum

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

• “decretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decretum 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)
• decretum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the tenets, dogmas of philosophers: decreta, inventa philosophorum
    
• “decretum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “decretum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dēcrētum

1. supine of dēcrēscō