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decade
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French decade, from Late Latin decas (“(set of) ten”), from Ancient Greek ????? (dekás), from ???? (déka, “ten”). In reference to a span of ten years, originally a clipping of the phrase decade of years. The word is equivalent to deca- +? -ade.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?ke?d/, /d??ke?d/
- (General American) enPR: d?k'?d, d?k?d', IPA(key): /?d?ke?d/, /d??ke?d/
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?d?k?d/ (set of ten prayers in a Rosary)
- Rhymes: -e?d
- Homophone: decayed (one pronunciation)
Noun
decade (plural decades)
- A group, set, or series of ten [from 16th c.], particularly:
- A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.]
- Synonym: (in some contexts) decennium
- A period of ten days, (historical) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars. [from 18th c.]
- (literary, archaic) A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome. [from 15th c.]
- (Roman Catholicism) A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.
- Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
- (electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
- A period of ten years [from 17th c.], particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. [from 19th c.]
- (electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
- (physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
Usage notes
Although a decade may refer to any group of ten years, it often particularly refers to the informal ten-year periods of the calendar whose last digits run from 0 to 9. Some style guides may prefer that decade refers exclusively to such calendar periods while decennium, decennary, &c. refers to ten-year periods in other contexts.
It should be noted that the method of computing a decade is distinguished from the proper computation of centuries and millennia, which run from 1 to 0. The 1st century began with the year 1 and ended with the year 100, but "the Nineties" are the years whose name includes the word ninety, from '90 to '99 with all those years with a 9 in the tens place digit.
Coordinate terms
- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
Related terms
- (adj.): decadal
- (10-year period; adj.; in some contexts): see decennial
Translations
See also
References
- “decade, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1894
Anagrams
- deaced
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French décade (“period of ten days”), cognate with German Dekade etc. In the sense “period of ten days” influenced by English decade; this meaning is seldom found outside poor translations from English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?de??ka?.d?/
- Hyphenation: de?ca?de
- Rhymes: -a?d?
Noun
decade f (plural decades or decaden, diminutive decadetje n)
- (historical) a décade, 'week' of ten days in the French republican calendar; hence any ten consecutive days
- a set of ten book volumes, as part of a larger opus
- (uncommon) a decade, period of ten years
Synonyms
- (ten years): decennium, jaartiental
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: dekade
Italian
Etymology
deca- +? -ade
Noun
decade f (plural decadi)
- a decade, a period of ten days
Related terms
- deca-
- decennio (ten years)
Verb
decade
- third-person singular indicative present of decadere
Anagrams
- deceda
Latin
Noun
dec?de
- ablative singular of dec?s
References
- decade in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Middle French
Noun
decade f (plural decades)
- a series of 10 books
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (decade, supplement)
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [de?kade]
Verb
decade
- third-person singular present indicative of dec?dea
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cade
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ke?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.
Adjective
cade (not comparable)
- (of an animal) abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
Verb
cade (third-person singular simple present cades, present participle cading, simple past and past participle caded)
- To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame.
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Noun
cade (plural cades)
- An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle French cade or Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.
Noun
cade (plural cades)
- western prickly juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, whose wood yields a tar.
Translations
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).
Noun
cade (plural cades)
- (archaic) A cask or barrel.
- A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.
Usage notes
- Used in the British Book of Rates for a determinate number of some sort of fish.
References
This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
Anagrams
- CEDA, aced, dace, deca-, ecad
Interlingua
Verb
cade
- present of cader
- imperative of cader
Italian
Verb
cade
- third-person singular present of cadere
Anagrams
- ceda
- deca
Latin
Verb
cade
- second-person singular present active imperative of cad?
Noun
cade
- vocative singular of cadus
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic ????? (j?da).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?????d?/
Noun
cade f (Arabic spelling ?????)
- road, street
Declension
Derived terms
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