decennary
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin decennis (“decennial, of ten years”) + -ary.[1]
Adjective edit
decennary (not comparable)
Noun edit
decennary (plural decennaries)
Usage notes edit
Although decade may be taken as any group of ten years, it is commonly restricted to the informal ten-year periods of the calendar whose last digits run from 0 to 9. Decennary &c. has no such restriction.
Synonyms edit
- See decennium
Etymology 2 edit
From Medieval Latin decennārius, a variant of decanarius (“containing ten items; related to the number ten”).[2]
Adjective edit
decennary (not comparable)
Etymology 3 edit
From Medieval Latin decennārius, a variant of decēnārius.[3]
Adjective edit
decennary (not comparable)
- (law, historical) Alternative form of decenary: of or related to a tithing.
Noun edit
decennary (plural decennaries)
- (law, historical) Alternative form of decenary: a tithing.
- 1881, T.S. Frampton, Hundred of Wrotham, page 36:
- All males... should... be enrolled in a tithing, or decennary, which originally consisted of ten free families.
References edit
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "decennary, adj. and n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1894.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "decenary, adj.1" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2015.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "decenary | decennary, adj.2 and n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1894.