décime

See also: decime and décimé

English

Noun

décime (plural décimes)

  1. Alternative form of decime (“coin”).

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.sim/
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Etymology 1

From Middle French decime, décime, decyme, borrowed from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”).[1] Compare the inherited doublet dîme.

Noun

décime f (plural décimes)

  1. (historical) a coin valued at one-tenth of a franc minted prior to 1815
  2. (informal) a 10-centime coin, minted up to 1999 and bearing the same value

Etymology 2

From décimer +‎ -e.

Verb

décime

  1. inflection of décimer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ “décime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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