decuria

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English

Noun

decuria (plural decurias)

  1. Alternative form of decury

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈku.rja/
  • Rhymes: -urja
  • Hyphenation: de‧cù‧ria

Noun

decuria f (plural decurie)

  1. decury

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

*decu-viria, from decem (“ten”) + vir (“man”).

Pronunciation

Noun

decuria f (genitive decuriae); first declension

  1. a group of ten men (or soldiers)
  2. a jury
  3. an administrative body comprising ten families
  4. a tithing
  5. (in the plural) jurors
  6. a section of the book of Psalms recited at Matins on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays in the traditional Ambrosian Liturgy of the Hours.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative decuria decuriae
Genitive decuriae decuriārum
Dative decuriae decuriīs
Accusative decuriam decuriās
Ablative decuriā decuriīs
Vocative decuria decuriae

Derived terms

References

  • “decuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “decuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • decuria 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)
  • decuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “decuria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “decuria”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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