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decima

decima is a Latin form of decimus, meaning “tenth”. It is the ablative singular feminine numeral or nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.40.15: Quod si praeterea nemo sequatur, tamen se cum sola decima legione iturum, de qua non dubitet, sibique eam praetoriam cohortem futuram. Huic legioni Caesar et indulserat praecipue et propter virtutem confidebat maxime.

Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 783n: Decima iam metitur seges.

All forms of decimus (declension table)

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