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Latin
Noun
decuma f (genitive decumae); first declension
- a tenth, one-tenth, a tithe
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms
Descendants
Verb
decumā
- second-person singular present active imperative of decumō
References
- “decuma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decuma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decuma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “decuma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “decuma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly