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décadi

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English

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Etymology

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From French décadi.

Noun

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décadi (plural décadis)

  1. (now historical) The tenth day of the decade (ten-day week) in the French Republican Calendar, superseding Sunday as a day of rest. [from 18th c.]
    • 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 59:
      [T]he gladness I have felt in France on a Sunday, or decadi, which I caught from the faces around me, was a sentiment more truly religious than all the stupid silliness which the streets of London ever inspired where the Sabbath is so decorously observed.

French

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Etymology

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From déca- (deca-, ten) +‎ -di (day), taken from the ordinary weekday names: lundi (Monday), mardi (Tuesday), mercredi (Wednesday), jeudi (Thursday), vendredi (Friday), samedi (Saturday).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /de.ka.di/
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  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

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décadi m (plural décadis)

  1. (now historical) décadi
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