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decimo
decimo
Italian
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Cardinal : dieci Ordinal : decimo | ||
Adjective
decimo m (feminine singular decima, masculine plural decimi, feminine plural decime)
Noun
decimo m (plural decimi, feminine decima)
- tenth (the one in tenth position)
decimo m (plural decimi)
- tenth (fraction)
Etymology 2
A regular conjugated form of decimare; compare the Latin decimō.
Verb
decimo
- first-person singular present of decimare
Related terms
See also
- Appendix:Italian numbers
Anagrams
References
- ↑ “dieci” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2
Latin
Etymology
From decimus (“tenth”) + -ō.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈde.ki.moː/, [ˈdɛ.kɪ.moː]
Verb
decimō (present infinitive decimāre, perfect active decimāvī, supine decimātum); first conjugation
- To decimate (select every tenth person for punishment)
- c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 1.37
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horror animum subit quotiens recordor feralem introitum et hanc solam Galbae victoriam, cum in oculis urbis decimari deditos iuberet, quos deprecantis in fidem acceperat.
- Horror overtakes me when I think back to that gruesome entry [in Rome], which was Galba's only victory, when before the eyes of the city he ordered the prisoners to be decimated, after he had accepted their pleas for surrender.
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horror animum subit quotiens recordor feralem introitum et hanc solam Galbae victoriam, cum in oculis urbis decimari deditos iuberet, quos deprecantis in fidem acceperat.
- 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Augusti.24
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cohortes, si quae cessissent loco, decimatas hordeo pauit.
- Cohorts, if they hadn't stood their ground, he decimated and fed on barley.
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cohortes, si quae cessissent loco, decimatas hordeo pauit.
- 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Caligulae.48
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prius quam provincia decederet, consilium iniit nefandae atrocitatis legiones, quae post excessum Augusti seditionem olim moverant, contrucidandi, quod et patrem suum Germanicum ducem et se infantem tunc obsedissent, vixque a tam praecipiti cogitatione revocatus, inhiberi nullo modo potuit quin decimare velle perseveraret.
- Before leaving the province, he formed a plan of unspeakable cruelty: to slaughter the legions that had once mutinied on Augustus's passing, because they had held both his father Germanicus, their commander, and himself as an infant captive at the time – and though he was with great effort talked out of such a rash thought, he could in no way be dissuaded from persevering in wanting to decimate them.
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prius quam provincia decederet, consilium iniit nefandae atrocitatis legiones, quae post excessum Augusti seditionem olim moverant, contrucidandi, quod et patrem suum Germanicum ducem et se infantem tunc obsedissent, vixque a tam praecipiti cogitatione revocatus, inhiberi nullo modo potuit quin decimare velle perseveraret.
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- To pay tithes
Inflection
Synonyms
Descendants
- Portuguese: dizimar, decimar
References
- decimo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “decimo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- ↑ “dieci” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2