decumanus

Latin

Alternative forms

• decimānus

Etymology

decumus (“tenth”) +‎ -ānus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /de.kuˈmaː.nus/, [d̪ɛkʊˈmäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.kuˈma.nus/, [d̪ekuˈmäːnus]

Adjective

decumānus (feminine decumāna, neuter decumānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) tenth; of the tenth
2. concerned with or relating to tithes or the collection of tithes
3. concerned with or relating to the tenth cohort or legion

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	decumānus	decumāna	decumānum		decumānī	decumānae	decumāna
Genitive	decumānī	decumānae	decumānī		decumānōrum	decumānārum	decumānōrum
Dative	decumānō		decumānō		decumānīs
Accusative	decumānum	decumānam	decumānum		decumānōs	decumānās	decumāna
Ablative	decumānō	decumānā	decumānō		decumānīs
Vocative	decumāne	decumāna	decumānum		decumānī	decumānae	decumāna

Noun

decumānus m (genitive decumānī); second declension

1. a tithe farmer or collector
2. a street that ran east–west in a Roman town or military camp
3. (Medieval Latin) a type of priest in northern Italy, later specifically in Milan, who originally acted as papal missionaries

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	decumānus	decumānī
Genitive	decumānī	decumānōrum
Dative	decumānō	decumānīs
Accusative	decumānum	decumānōs
Ablative	decumānō	decumānīs
Vocative	decumāne	decumānī

See also

• cardō (“north-south street”)

References

• “decumanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decumanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decumanus 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)
• decumanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “decumanus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill