See decima in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for decima meaning in English (5.8kB)
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "decima",
"4": "",
"5": "a tenth"
},
"expansion": "Latin decima (“a tenth”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "it",
"3": "decima"
},
"expansion": "Italian decima",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "decime"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of decime",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin decima (“a tenth”), now particularly via Italian decima. Doublet of decime.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "decimas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "decima (plural decimas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1988, Renaissance Studies, volume 2, page 195",
"text": "He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tenth, particularly",
"A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts)."
],
"id": "en-decima-en-noun-0ZFoe1Uw",
"links": [
[
"tenth",
"tenth"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"tithe",
"tithe"
],
[
"tax",
"tax"
],
[
"one-tenth",
"one-tenth"
]
],
"qualifier": "generally obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly",
"A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "74 13 13",
"sense": "generally",
"word": "tenth"
},
{
"_dis1": "39 31 31",
"sense": "tithe",
"word": "tithe"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Music",
"orig": "en:Music",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Sound",
"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tenth, particularly",
"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."
],
"id": "en-decima-en-noun-sHke5mjd",
"links": [
[
"tenth",
"tenth"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"note",
"note"
],
[
"nine",
"nine"
],
[
"degree",
"degree"
],
[
"scale",
"scale"
],
[
"given",
"given"
],
[
"thus",
"thus"
],
[
"ten",
"ten"
],
[
"separate",
"separate"
],
[
"count",
"count"
],
[
"inclusively",
"inclusively"
],
[
"interval",
"interval"
],
[
"between",
"between"
],
[
"such",
"such"
]
],
"qualifier": "generally obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly",
"(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."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "16 64 20",
"sense": "musical note or interval",
"word": "tenth"
}
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Music",
"orig": "en:Music",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Sound",
"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tenth, particularly",
"An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch."
],
"id": "en-decima-en-noun-waR54554",
"links": [
[
"tenth",
"tenth"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"organ stop",
"organ stop"
],
[
"normal",
"normal"
],
[
"foot",
"foot"
],
[
"pitch",
"pitch"
]
],
"qualifier": "generally obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly",
"(music) An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "2 2 96",
"sense": "organ stop",
"word": "double-tierce"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 96",
"sense": "organ stop",
"word": "great-tierce"
}
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɛsɪmə/"
}
],
"word": "decima"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "es",
"3": "décima"
},
"expansion": "Spanish décima",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "decima",
"4": "",
"5": "a tenth"
},
"expansion": "Latin decima (“a tenth”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "decime"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of decime",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Spanish décima, from Latin decima (“a tenth”). Doublet of decime.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "decimas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "decima (plural decimas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Poetry",
"orig": "en:Poetry",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Literature",
"Culture",
"Entertainment",
"Writing",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Communication",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "25 24 18 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 December 4, New York Times, C8",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions."
],
"id": "en-decima-en-noun-EqVomCz3",
"links": [
[
"poetry",
"poetry"
],
[
"line",
"line"
],
[
"verse",
"verse"
],
[
"stanza",
"stanza"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"song",
"song"
],
[
"comprising",
"comprising"
],
[
"introductory",
"introductory"
],
[
"follow",
"follow"
],
[
"four",
"four"
],
[
"such",
"such"
],
[
"division",
"division"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "décima"
}
],
"topics": [
"communications",
"journalism",
"literature",
"media",
"poetry",
"publishing",
"writing"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɛsɪmə/"
}
],
"word": "decima"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Spanish",
"English terms derived from Italian",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Spanish",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "decima",
"4": "",
"5": "a tenth"
},
"expansion": "Latin decima (“a tenth”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "it",
"3": "decima"
},
"expansion": "Italian decima",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "decime"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of decime",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin decima (“a tenth”), now particularly via Italian decima. Doublet of decime.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "decimas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "decima (plural decimas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1988, Renaissance Studies, volume 2, page 195",
"text": "He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tenth, particularly",
"A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts)."
],
"links": [
[
"tenth",
"tenth"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"tithe",
"tithe"
],
[
"tax",
"tax"
],
[
"one-tenth",
"one-tenth"
]
],
"qualifier": "generally obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly",
"A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts)."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"en:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"A tenth, particularly",
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"tenth",
"tenth"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"note",
"note"
],
[
"nine",
"nine"
],
[
"degree",
"degree"
],
[
"scale",
"scale"
],
[
"given",
"given"
],
[
"thus",
"thus"
],
[
"ten",
"ten"
],
[
"separate",
"separate"
],
[
"count",
"count"
],
[
"inclusively",
"inclusively"
],
[
"interval",
"interval"
],
[
"between",
"between"
],
[
"such",
"such"
]
],
"qualifier": "generally obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly",
"(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."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"en:Music"
],
"glosses": [
"A tenth, particularly",
"An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch."
],
"links": [
[
"tenth",
"tenth"
],
[
"particularly",
"particularly"
],
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"organ stop",
"organ stop"
],
[
"normal",
"normal"
],
[
"foot",
"foot"
],
[
"pitch",
"pitch"
]
],
"qualifier": "generally obsolete",
"raw_glosses": [
"(generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly",
"(music) An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɛsɪmə/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "generally",
"word": "tenth"
},
{
"sense": "tithe",
"word": "tithe"
},
{
"sense": "musical note or interval",
"word": "tenth"
},
{
"sense": "organ stop",
"word": "double-tierce"
},
{
"sense": "organ stop",
"word": "great-tierce"
}
],
"word": "decima"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Spanish",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Spanish",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "es",
"3": "décima"
},
"expansion": "Spanish décima",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "decima",
"4": "",
"5": "a tenth"
},
"expansion": "Latin decima (“a tenth”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "decime"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of decime",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Spanish décima, from Latin decima (“a tenth”). Doublet of decime.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "decimas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "decima (plural decimas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Poetry"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2008 December 4, New York Times, C8",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions."
],
"links": [
[
"poetry",
"poetry"
],
[
"line",
"line"
],
[
"verse",
"verse"
],
[
"stanza",
"stanza"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"song",
"song"
],
[
"comprising",
"comprising"
],
[
"introductory",
"introductory"
],
[
"follow",
"follow"
],
[
"four",
"four"
],
[
"such",
"such"
],
[
"division",
"division"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetry) A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions."
],
"topics": [
"communications",
"journalism",
"literature",
"media",
"poetry",
"publishing",
"writing"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdɛsɪmə/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "décima"
}
],
"word": "decima"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.