DECK Copy link • DECK 1. To cover, tegere (general term): contegere; obtegere; integere (anything with anything, aliqua re aliquid): sternere; consternere; insternere [SYN. in COVER; which see for phrases]: to deck a horse with trappings, equum sternere, insternere. To adorn, ornare (general term): exornare, distinguere [SYN. in ADORN]: comere: to deck with anything, ornare, or exornare, or distinguere, or distinguere et ornare aliqua re; excolere aliqua re, or ornatu alicujus rei (e.g., the walls with marble, parietes marmoribus; a room with pictures, cubiculum tabularum pictarum ornatu): to deck one’s self, se exornare (e.g., I deck myself out to please you, me exorno, tibi ut placeam). To cover with a deck; Vid: next word. 2. s. constratum navis (*Petronius, 100, 3 and 6). To cover with a deck, consternere (but only found in the past participle; Liv., 21, 28, being in a different sense). A vessel with a deck, constrata navis (Cic., Liv.); tecta navis (Caes., Liv., Tac.): ships which have decks, naves tectae, or constratae (opposed to naves apertae).