Where does “decima” come from?
decima (Latin) comes from Latin decimo, from Latin decimus, from Latin decem, from Latin -nus, from Proto-Italic -nos, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.
decima (Latin): second-person singular present active imperative...
Definitions
- second-person singular present active imperative...
Ancestry of “decima”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | decimo | I decimate; I pay tithes |
| 2 | Latin | decimus | tenth; the ordinal number after "nonus" and... |
| 3 | Latin | decem | ten; 10 |
| 4 | Latin | -nus | -an |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -nos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -nós | Creates verbal adjectives from roots |
Words derived from “decima”