English

Proper noun

Decima

1. (Roman mythology) One of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the measurer of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Lachesis.

Coordinate terms

• Nona
• Morta

Anagrams

• ice dam

English

Noun

decima ‎(plural decimas)

1. (generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly
   1. A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts).
      • 1988, Renaissance Studies, Vol. 2, p. 195

        He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany.

   2. (obsolete, music) A tenth: a note nine degrees of the scale above or below a given note (and thus ten degrees separate counting inclusively) or the interval between such notes.
   3. (music) An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch.

Synonyms

• (generally) See tenth
• (tithe): See tithe
• (musical note or interval): See tenth
• (organ stop): double-tierce, great-tierce

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Spanish décima, from Latin decima ‎(“a tenth”)

Alternative forms

• décima

Noun

decima ‎(plural decimas)

1. (poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.
   • 2008 December 4, New York Times, C8:

     His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.

Interlingua

Noun

decima ‎(plural decimas)

1. dime
2. tithe

Italian

Noun

decima f ‎(plural decime)

1. tithe
2. feminine equivalent of decimo

Adjective

decima

1. feminine singular of decimo

Verb

decima

1. third-person singular present of decimare
2. second-person singular imperative of decimare

Anagrams

• medica

Latin

Etymology

For decima pars, from decimus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.ki.ma/, [ˈdɛ.kɪ.ma]

Verb

decimā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of decimō

Noun

decima f ‎(genitive decimae); first declension

1. tithe
2. tenth part
3. tenth hour

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• decimō

Descendants

• Portuguese: dízima, décima
• Russian: де́цима ‎(décima)

References

• decima in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• decima in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DECIMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “decima”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.