decuria
English edit
Noun edit
decuria (plural decurias)
- Alternative form of decury
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
decuria f (plural decurie)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
*decu-viria, from decem (“ten”) + vir (“man”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deˈku.ri.a/, [d̪ɛˈkʊriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈku.ri.a/, [d̪eˈkuːriä]
Noun edit
decuria f (genitive decuriae); first declension
- a group of ten men (or soldiers)
- a jury
- an administrative body comprising ten families
- a tithing
- (in the plural) jurors
- a section of the book of Psalms recited at Matins on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays in the traditional Ambrosian Liturgy of the Hours.
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | decuria | decuriae |
Genitive | decuriae | decuriārum |
Dative | decuriae | decuriīs |
Accusative | decuriam | decuriās |
Ablative | decuriā | decuriīs |
Vocative | decuria | decuriae |
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References edit
- “decuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decuria 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)
- decuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “decuria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “decuria”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin