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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjɛ.t͡ʃe/
- Rhymes: -ɛtʃe
- Hyphenation: diè‧ce
Numeral
diece (invariable)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of dieci
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXV, p. 367, vv. 31-33:[...] onde cessar le sue opere biece ¶ sotto la mazza d'Ercule, che forse ¶ gliene diè cento, e non sentì le diece.- whereat his tortuous actions ceased beneath ¶ the mace of Hercules, who peradventure ¶ gave him a hundred, and he felt not ten.
Noun
diece m (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of dieci
References
- dieci in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Neapolitan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin decem.
Pronunciation
Numeral
diece
- ten
References
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 288: “nove; dieci” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it