decimus

See also: Decimus

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

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

Alternative forms

• decumus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.ki.mus/, [ˈd̪ɛkɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.t͡ʃi.mus/, [ˈd̪ɛːt͡ʃimus]

Numeral

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

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	decimus	decima	decimum		decimī	decimae	decima
Genitive	decimī	decimae	decimī		decimōrum	decimārum	decimōrum
Dative	decimō		decimō		decimīs
Accusative	decimum	decimam	decimum		decimōs	decimās	decima
Ablative	decimō	decimā	decimō		decimīs
Vocative	decime	decima	decimum		decimī	decimae	decima

Derived terms

• decima
• decimārius
• decimō

Related terms

• -decim
• decimalis
• decimum

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: deume
    • Catalan: delme
  • Old French: disme, dixme
    • Middle French: disme (⟨is⟩ /iː/)
      • French: dîme
      • → English: dime
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: diezmu
  • Portuguese: dízimo
  • Spanish: diezmo
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: dicto
  • Italian: decimo
    • → Sardinian: décimu
  • Sicilian: dècimu
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: diesim
• Borrowings:
  • → Asturian: décimu
  • → Catalan: dècim
  • → English: deci-
  • → French: décime
  • → Portuguese: décimo
  • → Russian: деци- (deci-)
  • → Spanish: décimo

References

• “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