Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Synonym of tithing (a division of the hundreds of medieval England)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: tithing
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A French coin minted from 1795 to 1801 and from 1814 to 1815, valued at one-tenth of a franc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A 10-centime coin, minted up to 1999 and bearing the same value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin decima (“a tenth; a tithing”). By surface analysis, dec- + -ime. Doublet of decim, decima, and dime.
From French décime (“a tenth; a decime”). Doublet of decim, decima, and dime.
