decima

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛsɪmə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin decima (“a tenth”), now particularly via Italian decima. Doublet of decime.

Noun

decima (plural decimas)

1. (generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly
   1. A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts).
      • 1988, Renaissance Studies, volume 2, page 195:

        He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany.

   2. (obsolete, music) A tenth: a note nine degrees of the scale above or below a given note (and thus ten degrees separate counting inclusively) or the interval between such notes.
   3. (music) An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch.

Synonyms

• (generally) See tenth
• (tithe): See tithe
• (musical note or interval): See tenth
• (organ stop): double-tierce, great-tierce

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish décima, from Latin decima (“a tenth”). Doublet of decime.

Alternative forms

• décima

Noun

decima (plural decimas)

1. (poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.
   • 2008 December 4, New York Times, C8:

     His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.

Anagrams

• McAdie, ice dam

Galician

Verb

decima

1. inflection of decimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Noun

decima (plural decimas)

1. dime
2. tithe

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin decima, feminine of decimus.

Noun

decima f (plural decime)

1. tithe
2. female equivalent of decimo

Adjective

decima

1. feminine singular of decimo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

decima

1. inflection of decimare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• demica, medica

Latin

Etymology

For decima pars, from decimus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.ki.ma/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.t͡ʃi.ma/,

Verb

decimā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of decimō

Noun

decima f (genitive decimae); first declension

1. tithe
2. tenth part
3. tenth hour

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• decimō

Descendants

References

• “decima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• decima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French décimer, Latin decimare.

Verb

a decima (third-person singular present decimează, past participle decimat) 1st conj.

1. to decimate

Conjugation