decimo

decimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of decimar

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.t͡ʃi.mo/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʃimo
• Hyphenation: dè‧ci‧mo

From Latin decimus (“the tenth”).^[1] Cf. also the place name Diecimo.

decimo (feminine decima, masculine plural decimi, feminine plural decime)

1. (ordinal number) tenth

decimo m (plural decimi)

1. (fractional number) tenth

• decima
• dieci

A regular conjugated form of decimare; compare the Latin decimō.

decimo

1. first-person singular present indicative of decimare

• deci-

• comedi, demico, medico, medico-, medicò

From decimus (“tenth”) + -ō.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛ.kɪ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.t͡ʃi.mo]

decimō (present infinitive decimāre, perfect active decimāvī, supine decimātum); first conjugation

1. to decimate (select every tenth person for punishment)
   • c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Historiae 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.

   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Augusti 24:

     Cohortes, si quae cessissent loco, decimatas hordeo pavit.

     Cohorts, if they hadn't stood their ground, he decimated and fed on barley.

   • 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.

2. to pay tithes

• decumo

• “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.