different between decade vs tricenarian

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)

1. A group, set, or series of ten [from 16th c.], particularly:
   1. 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
   2. A period of ten days, (historical) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars. [from 18th c.]
   3. (literary, archaic) A work in ten parts or books, particularly such divisions of Livy's History of Rome. [from 15th c.]
   4. (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.
   5. Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
   6. (electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
2. (electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
3. (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)

1. (historical) a décade, 'week' of ten days in the French republican calendar; hence any ten consecutive days
2. a set of ten book volumes, as part of a larger opus
3. (uncommon) a decade, period of ten years

Synonyms

• (ten years): decennium, jaartiental

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: dekade

Italian

Etymology

deca- +? -ade

Noun

decade f (plural decadi)

1. a decade, a period of ten days

Related terms

• deca-
• decennio (ten years)

Verb

decade

1. third-person singular indicative present of decadere

Anagrams

• deceda

Latin

Noun

dec?de

1. 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)

1. a series of 10 books

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (decade, supplement)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de?kade]

Verb

decade

1. third-person singular present indicative of dec?dea

English

Noun

tricenarian (plural tricenarians)

1. The highest rank and pay grade for prefectures in Ancient Rome
2. A person in their thirties, a person aged between 30 and 39 years (inclusive).

   Synonym: thirtysomething

Translations

Coordinate terms

• vicenarian
• quadragenarian
• quinquagenarian
• sexagenarian
• septuagenarian
• octogenarian
• nonagenarian
• centenarian

Anagrams

• interacinar