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English
Noun
decuria (plural decurias)
- Alternative form of decury
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈku.rja/
- Rhymes: -urja
- Hyphenation: de‧cù‧ria
Noun
decuria f (plural decurie)
- decury
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
*decu-viria, from decem (“ten”) + vir (“man”).
Pronunciation
Noun
decuria f (genitive decuriae); first declension
- a group of ten men (or soldiers)
- a jury
- an administrative body comprising ten families
- a tithing
- (in the plural) jurors
- 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.
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