decimo
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Etymology 1Edit
From Latin decimus (“the tenth”).[1] Cf. also the place name Diecimo.
AdjectiveEdit
decimo (feminine singular decima, masculine plural decimi, feminine plural decime)
NounEdit
decimo m (plural decimi, feminine decima)
- tenth (the one in tenth position)
decimo m (plural decimi)
- tenth (fraction)
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Etymology 2Edit
A regular conjugated form of decimare; compare the Latin decimō.
VerbEdit
decimo
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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From decimus (“tenth”) + -ō.[1]
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈde.ki.moː/, [ˈd̪ɛ.kɪ.moː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.t͡ʃi.mo/, [ˈd̪ɛː.t͡ʃi.mɔ]
VerbEdit
decimō (present infinitive decimāre, perfect active decimāvī, supine decimātum); first conjugation
- I decimate (select every tenth person for punishment)
- c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 1.37:
- horror animum subit quotiens recordor feralem introitum et hanc solam Galbae victoriam, cum in oculis urbis decimari deditos iuberet, quos deprecantis in fidem acceperat.
- Horror overtakes me when I think back to that gruesome entry [in Rome], which was Galba's only victory, when before the eyes of the city he ordered the prisoners to be decimated, after he had accepted their pleas for surrender.
- horror animum subit quotiens recordor feralem introitum et hanc solam Galbae victoriam, cum in oculis urbis decimari deditos iuberet, quos deprecantis in fidem acceperat.
- 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Augusti.24:
- cohortes, si quae cessissent loco, decimatas hordeo pauit.
- Cohorts, if they hadn't stood their ground, he decimated and fed on barley.
- cohortes, si quae cessissent loco, decimatas hordeo pauit.
- 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Caligulae.48:
- prius quam provincia decederet, consilium iniit nefandae atrocitatis legiones, quae post excessum Augusti seditionem olim moverant, contrucidandi, quod et patrem suum Germanicum ducem et se infantem tunc obsedissent, vixque a tam praecipiti cogitatione revocatus, inhiberi nullo modo potuit quin decimare velle perseveraret.
- Before leaving the province, he formed a plan of unspeakable cruelty: to slaughter the legions that had once mutinied on Augustus's passing, because they had held both his father Germanicus, their commander, and himself as an infant captive at the time – and though he was with great effort talked out of such a rash thought, he could in no way be dissuaded from persevering in wanting to decimate them.
- prius quam provincia decederet, consilium iniit nefandae atrocitatis legiones, quae post excessum Augusti seditionem olim moverant, contrucidandi, quod et patrem suum Germanicum ducem et se infantem tunc obsedissent, vixque a tam praecipiti cogitatione revocatus, inhiberi nullo modo potuit quin decimare velle perseveraret.
- I pay tithes
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ReferencesEdit
- decimo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- decimo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette