decumanus
Latin
Alternative forms
- decimānus
Etymology
decumus (“tenth”) + -ānus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /de.kuˈmaː.nus/, [d̪ɛkʊˈmäːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.kuˈma.nus/, [d̪ekuˈmäːnus]
Adjective
decumānus (feminine decumāna, neuter decumānum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) tenth; of the tenth
- concerned with or relating to tithes or the collection of tithes
- concerned with or relating to the tenth cohort or legion
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | decumānus | decumāna | decumānum | decumānī | decumānae | decumāna | |
| Genitive | decumānī | decumānae | decumānī | decumānōrum | decumānārum | decumānōrum | |
| Dative | decumānō | decumānō | decumānīs | ||||
| Accusative | decumānum | decumānam | decumānum | decumānōs | decumānās | decumāna | |
| Ablative | decumānō | decumānā | decumānō | decumānīs | |||
| Vocative | decumāne | decumāna | decumānum | decumānī | decumānae | decumāna | |
Noun
decumānus m (genitive decumānī); second declension
- a tithe farmer or collector
- a street that ran east–west in a Roman town or military camp
- (Medieval Latin) a type of priest in northern Italy, later specifically in Milan, who originally acted as papal missionaries
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | decumānus | decumānī |
| Genitive | decumānī | decumānōrum |
| Dative | decumānō | decumānīs |
| Accusative | decumānum | decumānōs |
| Ablative | decumānō | decumānīs |
| Vocative | decumāne | decumānī |
See also
- cardō (“north-south street”)
References
- “decumanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “decumanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- decumanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- decumanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “decumanus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill