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Multiple entries for this lemma:
decimus or decumus (the latter form prevailed in the later law lang.; hence, decumanus), a, um, adj. [decem with superl. ending], the tenth.

I. Prop.: mensis, Plaut. Am. 1.2.19; cf. Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 29: legio, Caes. B. G. 1.40; cf. ib. 41; 42 al.: decima hora, Cic. Phil. 2.31; and without hora, Auct. Her. 4, 51: annus, Verg. A. 9.155: septuma (dies) post decumam, i. e. the seventeenth, id. G. 1.284 Voss.: cum decumo efficit ager, i. e. tenfold, Cic. Verr. 2.3.47.§ 112; so, extulisset, ib. § 113.--*

b. decimum, adv. (like tertium, quartum, etc.; cf. Gell. 10, 1), for the tenth time, Liv. 6.40.--

B. Subst.: decima (decuma), ae, f. (sc. pars), the tenth part, tithe.

1. As an offering: testatur Terentius Varro ... majores solitos decimam Herculi vovere, Macr. S. 3, 12; so Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll.; Just. 18, 7, 7; cf. with pars; Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 874 P.; Plaut. Stich. 1.3.80: tibi (sc. Pythico Apollini) hinc decumam partem praedae voveo, Liv. 5.21; cf.: cum vovissent Apollini decumas praedae, Just. 20, 3, 3; cf. id. 18, 7, 7; Vulg. Gen. 14, 20; so esp. of the tithes given by the Hebrews to support the priesthood, id. Num. 18, 21 et saep.--

2. A largess openly bestowed by public men on the people: Oresti nuper prandia in semitis decumae nomine magno honori fuerunt, Cic. Off. 2, 17, 58; so Suet. Calig. 26; id. Galb. 15; Tac. H. 1, 20.--

3. A tithe, as a tax on landholders in the provinces, Cic. Verr. 2.3.10.§ 25; more freq. in plur., id. ib. 2, 3, 39, § 89 sq.--

4. A tithe, as conveyed by last will: decimas uxoribus dari, Trach. ap. Quint. 8, 5, 19.

II. Meton. (like decem, decies, etc.), considerable, large, immense (poet.): vastius insurgens decimae ruit impetus undae, Ov. M. 11.530 (cf.: decimanus, no. II., and in Gr. trikumia); so of billows, Sil. 14, 122; Luc. 5, 672; Val. Fl. 2, 54 (decimus by circumlocut.: qui venit hic fluctus, fluctus supereminet omnes; posterior nono est undecimoque prior, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 50).



Decimus, i, m., Decima, ae, f., proper names.

I. Decimus, a Roman praenomen, abbrev. D. In the gens Claudia it was given only to patricians; but among the Junii and Laelii to plebeians also; cf. Varr. L. L. 9, § 61 Müll.--Hence, Decimiânus, a, um, adj., named for Decimus: pirus, Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 54.--

II. Decima, the goddess that presides over accouchements, a partus tempestivi tempore, Varr. and Caesel. ap. Gell. 3, 16, 10 sq.; cf. also Tert. Anim. 37; id. adv. Val. 32.