different between decima vs hexadecimal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s?m?/

Etymology 1

From Latin decima (“a tenth”), now particularly via Italian decima. Doublet of decime.

Noun

decima (plural decimas)

1. (generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly
   1. A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts).
      • 1988, Renaissance Studies, Vol. 2, p. 195

        He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany.

   2. (obsolete, music) A tenth: a note nine degrees of the scale above or below a given note (and thus ten degrees separate counting inclusively) or the interval between such notes.
   3. (music) An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch.

Synonyms

• (generally) See tenth
• (tithe): See tithe
• (musical note or interval): See tenth
• (organ stop): double-tierce, great-tierce

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish décima, from Latin decima (“a tenth”). Doublet of decime.

Alternative forms

• décima

Noun

decima (plural decimas)

1. (poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.
   • 2008 December 4, New York Times, C8:

     His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.

Anagrams

• McAdie, ice dam

Interlingua

Noun

decima (plural decimas)

1. dime
2. tithe

Italian

Etymology

From Latin decima, feminine of decimus.

Noun

decima f (plural decime)

1. tithe
2. female equivalent of decimo

Adjective

decima

1. feminine singular of decimo

Verb

decima

1. third-person singular present of decimare
2. second-person singular imperative of decimare

Anagrams

• medica

Latin

Etymology

For decima pars, from decimus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?de.ki.ma/, [?d??k?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?de.t??i.ma/, [?d???t??im?]

Verb

decim?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of decim?

Noun

decima f (genitive decimae); first declension

1. tithe
2. tenth part
3. tenth hour

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• decim?

Descendants

• English: decima
• Friulian: diesime
• Italian: decima
• Portuguese: dízima, décima
• Russian: ??????? (décima)

References

• decima in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• decima in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• decima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French décimer, from Latin decimare.

Verb

a decima (third-person singular present decimeaz?, past participle decimat) 1st conj.

1. to decimate

Conjugation

English

Etymology

hexadeca- +? decimal; see the Wikipedia article for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?ks??d?s?m?l/

Noun

hexadecimal (countable and uncountable, plural hexadecimals)

1. (arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte.
2. (countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexadecimal system.

Synonyms

• (arithmetic, computing): base sixteen
• hex
• sexidecimal
• sexadecimal

Derived terms

• hexit

Translations

Adjective

hexadecimal (not comparable)

1. Of a number, expressed in hexadecimal.

Synonyms

• (arithmetic, computing): base-sixteen

Translations

See also

• base
• binary
• decimal
• octal
• 0x

Catalan

Adjective

hexadecimal (masculine and feminine plural hexadecimals)

1. hexadecimal

Noun

hexadecimal m (plural hexadecimals)

1. hexadecimal

Portuguese

Adjective

hexadecimal m or f (plural hexadecimais, comparable)

1. (computing, of a number) hexadecimal (expressed in base 16)

Noun

hexadecimal m (plural hexadecimais)

1. (computing) hexadecimal (number expressed in base 16)

Spanish

Noun

hexadecimal m (plural hexadecimales)

1. hexadecimal

Adjective

hexadecimal (plural hexadecimales)

1. hexadecimal