ORNAMENT Copy link • ORNAMENT 1. s. PROP., ornamentum. decus: (The words are found in this connection and order.) decus et ornamentum: the ornaments of temples, decora et ornamenta fanorum. Figuratively, decus; lumen. (The words are found in this connection and order.) decus et lumen. Pompey the ornament of the empire, Pompeius decus imperii: Hortensius, the ornament of the state, Hortensius lumen et ornamentum reipublicae. Rhetorical ornament, dicendi, orationis, cultus or ornatus; dicendi, orationis, or verborum lumina; quasi verborum sententiarumque insignia. ☞ Fucus, pigmenta orationis, when excessive or out of taste. 2. v. ornare; decorare; exornare; distinguere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) distinguere et ornare. SYN. in ADORN.