decanus

From decem (“ten”) + -ānus.

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɛˈkaː.nʊs]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈkaː.nus]

decānus m (genitive decānī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. chief of ten people (in various contexts)
2. dean

Second-declension noun.

• “decanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "decanus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “decanus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “decanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decanus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “decanus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin