dîme

See also: dime and Dime

French

Alternative forms

• dime (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French dixme, from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”). Compare the borrowed doublet décime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dim/

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Noun

dîme f (plural dîmes)

1. tithe
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     Ce refus d'accepter un rafraîchissement lui semblait une hypocrisie des plus odieuses; les prêtres godaillaient tous sans qu'on les vît, et cherchaient à ramener le temps de la dîme.

     This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe.

Related terms

• dix

Further reading

• “dîme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• demi, idem