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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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nonagenarian
English
Etymology
From Latin n?n?g?n?rius (“of the number ninety”) (from nonageni (“ninety each”), from nonaginta (“ninety”), from nona- (akin to novem (“nine”)) + -ginta (akin to viginti (“twenty”)), + -arius) +? -an
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?næd????n?????n/
Adjective
nonagenarian (not comparable)
- Being between the ages of 90 and 99, inclusive. In one's tenth decade.
- Of or relating to a nonagenarian.
Translations
Noun
nonagenarian (plural nonagenarians)
- One who is between the age of 90 and 99, inclusive. One who is in his or her tenth decade.
Translations
Coordinate terms
- vicenarian
- tricenarian
- quadragenarian
- quinquagenarian
- sexagenarian
- septuagenarian
- octogenarian
- centenarian
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