décime
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]décime (plural décimes)
- Alternative form of decime (“coin”)
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle French decime, décime, decyme, borrowed from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”).[1] Compare the inherited doublet dîme.
Noun
[edit]décime f (plural décimes)
- (historical) a coin valued at one-tenth of a franc minted prior to 1815
- (informal) a 10-centime coin, minted up to 1999 and bearing the same value
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]décime
- inflection of décimer:
References
[edit]- ^ “décime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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