decenario

• decennario

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin decēnārius, reshaping of Classical Latin dēnārius (“tenfold”) (influenced by adjectives such as septēnārius), derived from dēnī (“ten each”), distributive form of decem (“ten”).

• IPA^(key): /de.t͡ʃeˈna.rjo/
• Rhymes: -arjo
• Hyphenation: de‧ce‧nà‧rio

decenario (feminine decenaria, masculine plural decenari, feminine plural decenarie) (archaic)

1. tenfold

   Synonym: decuplo

   • 1477 [413–426], “Capitolo .xxiii.” (chapter 23), Libro xx., in Antonio Miscomini, transl., De la cità di Dio [On the city of God]‎ (theology; manuscript), translation of Dē cīvitāte Deī by Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (in Late Latin), page 537:

     Or che ſequeſto decenario numero ſono ſignificati tutti gli uniuerſi Re: dopo liquali colui dee uenire come per lo millenario centenario et ſeptenario e ſignificata ſpeſſe uolte launiuerſita et ꝑ altri numeri chi none neceſſario diricordarlo ora.

     [Or che se questo decenario numero sono significati tutti gli universi re — dopo li quali colui dee venire — come per lo millenario, centenario e settenario è significata spesse volte la università, e per altri numeri chi non è necessario di ricordarlo ora[?]]

     So, what if this 10 were to represent all of the kings—after whom he is to come—just as 1000, 100, and 7 (as well as other numbers that don't need to be remembered now) often represent totality?

     (literally, “So what if this tenfold number are signified all the whole kings, after whom he must come, like through the thousandfold , hundredfold , and sevenfold is signified oftentimes the totality and through other numbers that is not necessary to remember now.”)

decenario m (plural decenari)

1. ten (the number 10)

   Synonym: dieci

2. (historical) the head of an administrative district of ten families
3. decade (ten-year period)

   Synonyms: decade, decennio

• “decenàrio”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 4 dah–duu, UTET, 1966, page 72c