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語源 1

From Latin decennis (“decennial, of ten years”) + -ary.

形容詞

decennary (not comparable)

1. Decennial: of or related to a ten-year period.

名詞

decennary (plural decennaries)

1. A decennium: a period of ten years.

使用する際の注意点

Although decade may be taken as any group of ten years, it is commonly restricted to the informal ten-year periods of the calendar whose last digits run from 0 to 9. Decennary &c. has no such restriction.

同意語

• See decennium

語源 2

From Medieval Latin decennārius, a variant of decanarius (“containing ten items; related to the number ten”).

形容詞

decennary (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of decenary: of or related to the number ten; containing ten items.

語源 3

From Medieval Latin decennārius, a variant of decēnārius.

形容詞

decennary (not comparable)

1. (law, historical) Alternative form of decenary: of or related to a tithing.

名詞

decennary (plural decennaries)

1. (law, historical) Alternative form of decenary: a tithing.
   • 1881, T.S. Frampton, Hundred of Wrotham, page 36:

     All males... should... be enrolled in a tithing, or decennary, which originally consisted of ten free families.

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