# decimo
## Galician
### Verb

decimo
* first-person singular present indicative of decimar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɛ.t͡ʃi.mo/
* Rhymes: -ɛtʃimo
* Hyphenation: dè‧ci‧mo

### Etymology 1

From Latin decimus (“the tenth”). Cf. also the place name Diecimo.

#### Adjective

decimo (feminine decima, masculine plural decimi, feminine plural decime)
* (ordinal number) tenth

#### Noun

decimo m (plural decimi)
* (fractional number) tenth

##### Related terms

* decima
* dieci

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

decimo
* first-person singular present indicative of decimare

##### Related terms

* deci-

### References

* ↑ “dieci” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

### Anagrams

* comedi, demico, medico, medico-, medicò

## Latin
### Etymology

From decimus (“tenth”) +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈde.ki.moː/, [ˈd̪ɛkɪmoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈde.t͡ʃi.mo/, [ˈd̪ɛːt͡ʃimo]

### Verb

decimō (present infinitive decimāre, perfect active decimāvī, supine decimātum); first conjugation
* to decimate (select every tenth person for punishment)
** c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Histories 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.
** c. 69 CE – 122 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.
** c. 69 CE – 122 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.
* to pay tithes

#### Synonyms

* decumo

#### Descendants

* Inherited:
** Catalan: delmar
** Old Spanish: dezmar
*** Spanish: diezmar
** Portuguese: dizimar
* Borrowed:
** → English: decimate
** → French: décimer
** → Galician: decimar
** → Italian: decimare
** → Portuguese: decimar
** → Romanian: decima

### References

* “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.
* ↑ “dieci” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN