Latin

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Etymology

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Adverbial accusative of decimus (tenth).

Adverb

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decimum (not comparable)

  1. For the tenth time
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References

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  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • decimum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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