δέκατον (dekaton)

δέκατον is an Ancient Greek form of δέκατος, meaning “tenth”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 124 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.56.5: καὶ τελευτῶντος τοῦ χειμῶνος πρὸς ἔαρ ἤδη κλίμακας ἔχοντες οἱ Ἀργεῖοι ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐπίδαυρον, ὡς ἐρήμου οὔσης διὰ τὸν πόλεμον βίᾳ αἱρήσοντες· καὶ ἄπρακτοι ἀπῆλθον. καὶ ὁ χειμὼν ἐτελεύτα, καὶ τρίτον καὶ δέκατον ἔτος τῷ πολέμῳ ἐτελεύτα.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 47.16.5: σφόδρα πάντας ἠνίασε. τῷ μὲν γὰρ λόγῳ τὸ δέκατον τῆς οὐσίας παρʼ ἑκάστου σφῶν ἐπράχθη, ἔργῳ δὲ οὐδὲ τὸ δέκατόν τινι κατελείφθη· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ οὐ ῥητόν τι ἀργύριον πρὸς τὴν τῶν κτημάτων ἀξίαν ἐσενεγκεῖν ἐκελεύσθησαν, ἀλλʼ ἐπ …

All forms of δέκατος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.