deck (v.) Copy link Outline I. To ornamentII. To furnish with a deck • deck (v.): I. To ornament: exorno, orno, 1: v. adorn, BEAU IFY See also decked. II. To furnish with a deck: ponte struere, Tac.: v. foll. art.
deck (subs.) Copy link • deck (subs.): pons, pontis., m.: ships floored with d.s, naves pontibus stratae, Tac. A. 2, 6 (where, however, partial decks are meant). Phr.: a ship with a d., navis constrata, Cic.: ships without d.s, naves apertae, Cic.: twenty Rhodian ships all with d.s, viginti Rhodiae naves, tectae omnes, Liv.
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).