decimum

Latin

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of decimus (“tenth”).

Adverb

decimum (not comparable)

1. For the tenth time

Related terms

• decimus

References

• “decimum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 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