Noun: decima
| Singular | decima |
| Plural | decimas |
Sample Sentences
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He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany. [1988, Renaissance Studies, volume 2, page 195:]
Nouns inflected like decima
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin decima (“a tenth”), now particularly via Italian decima. Doublet of decim, decime, and dime. See: Latin Nouns '
decima', Italian Nouns '
decima'.