decimum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈde.ki.mum/, [ˈd̪ɛkɪmʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.t͡ʃi.mum/, [ˈd̪ɛːt͡ʃimum]

Etymology 1

Adverbial accusative of decimus (“tenth”).

Adverb

decimum (not comparable)

1. for the tenth time

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Numeral

decimum

1. inflection of decimus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “decimum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “decimum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "decimum", 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)
• decimum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I am in my thirteenth year: tertium decimum annum ago
    
  • to be entering on one's tenth year: decimum aetatis annum ingredi
    
  • to be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year: decimum annum excessisse, egressum esse