δεκάτας (dekatas)

δεκάτας is an Ancient Greek form of δέκατος, meaning “tenth”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of δεκάτη, “tenth, tithe”.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 14: … βελίσκοι σιδηροῖ, δυσχεράνας ὁ Διογενιανὸς ἦν ἄρα τῆς αὐτῆς ἔφη πόλεως Ῥοδώπιδι μὲν χώραν παρασχεῖν, ὅπου τὰς δεκάτας φέρουσα καταθήσεται τῶν μισθῶν, Αἴσωπον δʼ ἀπολέσαι τὸν ὁμόδουλον αὐτῆς. καὶ ὁ Σαραπίων τί δὲ ταῦτʼ ἔφη μακάρ …

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.