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English
Etymology
From French décadi.
Noun
décadi (plural décadis)
- (now historical) The tenth day of the decade (ten-day week) in the French Republican Calendar, superseding Sunday as a day of rest.
1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 59:[T]he gladness I have felt in France on a Sunday, or decadi, which I caught from the faces around me, was a sentiment more truly religious than all the stupid silliness which the streets of London ever inspired where the Sabbath is so decorously observed.
French
Etymology
From déca- (“deca-, ten”) + -di (“day”), taken from the ordinary weekday names: lundi (“Monday”), mardi (“Tuesday”), mercredi (“Wednesday”), jeudi (“Thursday”), vendredi (“Friday”), samedi (“Saturday”).
Pronunciation
Noun
décadi m (plural décadis)
- (now historical) décadi
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