See also: Decimus

Latin

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    Cardinal: decem, decim
    Ordinal: decimus
    Adverbial: deciēs, deciēns
    Proportional: decuplus, decemplus
    Multiplier: decemplex, decuplex
    Distributive: dēnus
    Fractional: decima, decimus

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *dekemos, from *dekem (ten), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Related to decem.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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decimus (feminine decima, neuter decimum); first/second-declension numeral

  1. tenth; the ordinal number after nonus and before undecimus

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • decimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • decimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • decimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “decem”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 163