# decima
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɛsɪmə/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin decima (“a tenth”), now particularly via Italian decima. Doublet of decim, decime, and dime.

#### Noun

decima (plural decimas)
* (generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly
** A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts).
*** 1988, Renaissance Studies, volume 2, page 195:He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany.
** (obsolete, music) A tenth: a note nine degrees of the scale above or below a given note (and thus ten degrees separate counting inclusively) or the interval between such notes.
** (music) An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch.

##### Synonyms

* (generally) See tenth
* (tithe): See tithe
* (musical note or interval): See tenth
* (organ stop): double-tierce, great-tierce

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish décima, from Latin decima (“a tenth”). Doublet of decim, decime, and dime.

#### Alternative forms

* décima

#### Noun

decima (plural decimas)
* (poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.
** 2008 December 4, New York Times, C8:His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.

### Anagrams

* McAdie, ice dam

## Galician
### Verb

decima
* inflection of decimar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Interlingua
### Noun

decima (plural decimas)
* dime
* tithe

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin decima, feminine of decimus.

#### Noun

decima f (plural decime)
* tithe
* female equivalent of decimo

#### Adjective

decima
* feminine singular of decimo

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

decima
* inflection of decimare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* demica, medica

## Latin
### Etymology

For decima pars, from decimus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈde.ki.ma/, [ˈd̪ɛkɪmä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈde.t͡ʃi.ma/, [ˈd̪ɛːt͡ʃimä]

### Verb

decimā
* second-person singular present active imperative of decimō

### Noun

decima f (genitive decimae); first declension
* tithe
* tenth part
* tenth hour

#### Declension

First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | decima | decimae |
| Genitive | decimae | decimārum |
| Dative | decimae | decimīs |
| Accusative | decimam | decimās |
| Ablative | decimā | decimīs |
| Vocative | decima | decimae |

#### Derived terms

* decimō

#### Descendants

* Friulian: diesime
* → Italian: decima
** → Piedmontese: decima
* Old Piedmontese: dezma
* Portuguese: dízima
* → English: decima
* → Russian: де́цима (décima)

### References

* “decima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “decima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* decima 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)
* decima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French décimer, Latin decimare.

### Verb

a decima (third-person singular present decimează, past participle decimat) 1st conj.
* to decimate