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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɛkjəɹi/

名詞

decury (plural decuries)

1. (Ancient Rome) A group of ten men under the command of a decurion.
   • 1760, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1‎:

     If one, two, or more of a decury proceed bravely to battle, and the rest do not follow, the cowards are slain.

   • 1904, John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Roman History, Books I-III‎:

     Accordingly, the hundred senators divided the government among themselves, ten decuries being formed, and the individual members who were to have the chief direction of affairs being chosen into each decury.

参照

• “decury”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.