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adj
Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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adj
Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, not-comparable
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noun
An extraordinarily large billow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).
