decimum

Latin

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of decimus (“tenth”).

Adverb

decimum (not comparable)

  1. For the tenth time

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, 1883–1887)
  • decimum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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
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