decad

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛkæd/

Noun

decad (plural decads)

1. Archaic form of decade (“period of ten years”).
   • Tennyson

     Averill was a decad and a half his elder.

2. Archaic form of decade. (group of ten)
   • Thomas Taylor, translating Aristotle in The Physics, or Physical Ausculation of Aristotle (1806) p. 167.

     Plato […] extends number as far as to the decad.

Coordinate terms

• monad · duad, dyad · triad · tetrad · pentad · hexad · heptad · octad · ennead, nonad · decad, decade · hendecad · dodecad, duodecade

Anagrams

• caded

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deˈkad]

Verb

decad

1. first-person singular present indicative of decădea
2. third-person plural present indicative of decădea
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of decădea