英语词汇decent的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

decent; indecent. Our English word decent comes from the Latin decent, the present participle of decere, to be fitting, which is similar to the word’s usual present-day meaning, “to be free from indelicacy, modest, to be respectable.” People in the mountain areas of the American South still don’t frequent- ly use the word decent. H. L. Mencken explained this taboo, regarding the South, in The American Language (1919): “Fifty years ago the word decent was indecent . . . no Southern woman was supposed to have any notion of the difference be- tween decent and indecent. See common.

词汇	decent
词源	decent; indecent. Our English word decent comes from the Latin decent, the present participle of decere, to be fitting, which is similar to the word’s usual present-day meaning, “to be free from indelicacy, modest, to be respectable.” People in the mountain areas of the American South still don’t frequent- ly use the word decent. H. L. Mencken explained this taboo, regarding the South, in The American Language (1919): “Fifty years ago the word decent was indecent . . . no Southern woman was supposed to have any notion of the difference be- tween decent and indecent. See common.
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