décadi
See also: decadi
English
Alternative forms
- decadi
Etymology
From French décadi.
Noun
décadi (plural décadis)
- (now historical) The tenth day of the decade (ten-day week) in the French Republican Calendar, superseding Sunday as a day of rest. [from 18th c.]
- 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford 2009, p. 59:
- [T]he gladness I have felt in France on a Sunday, or decadi, which I caught from the faces around me, was a sentiment more truly religious than all the stupid silliness which the streets of London ever inspired where the Sabbath is so decorously observed.
- 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford 2009, p. 59:
French
Etymology
From déca- (“deca-, ten”) + -di (“day”), taken from the ordinary weekday names: lundi (“Monday”), mardi (“Tuesday”), mercredi (“Wednesday”), jeudi (“Thursday”), vendredi (“Friday”), samedi (“Saturday”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ka.di/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -i
Noun
décadi m (plural décadis)
- (now historical) décadi
Related terms
- duodi
- nonidi
- octidi
- primidi
- quartidi
- quintidi
- septidi
- sextidi
- tridi
Further reading
- “décadi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- caddie
- décida