decem

American  

[de-kem, des-em] / ˈdɛ kɛm, ˈdɛs ɛm /

adjective

Latin.

1. ten.

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decem

That was called compounding, componat cum decem, viginti, triginta solidis.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

Is the poisoned breath of the casuist to destroy the prosperity of those— "Quos neque Tydides, nec Larissæus Achilles, Non anni domuere decem, non mille carinæ!"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

December, again, is derived from decem and imbres 'quibus abundare solet'; and so too the other numbered months.

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen

Second—If a numeral adjective, of a different case, were joined to the genitive plural of Sestertius, it signified so many thousand Sesterces; as decem Sestertium, 10,000 Sesterces—$357.

From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Charles K. Dillaway

This book was perhaps the Dialogi decem, put into print at Cologne in 1472: Brunet.

From Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 by Various

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