decennary
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin decennis (“decennial, of ten years”) + -ary.[1]
Adjective
decennary (not comparable)
Noun
decennary (plural decennaries)
Usage notes
Although decade may be taken as any group of ten years, it is commonly restricted to the informal ten-year periods of the calendar whose last digits run from 0 to 9. Decennary &c. has no such restriction.
Synonyms
- See decennium
Etymology 2
From Medieval (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin decennārius, a variant of decanarius (“containing ten items; related to the number ten”).[2]
Adjective
decennary (not comparable)
Etymology 3
From Medieval (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin decennārius, a variant of decēnārius.[3]
Adjective
decennary (not comparable)
- (law, historical) Alternative form of decenary: of or related to a tithing.
Noun
decennary (plural decennaries)
- (law, historical) Alternative form of decenary: a tithing.
- 1881, T.S. Frampton, Hundred of Wrotham, page 36:
- All males... should... be enrolled in a tithing, or decennary, which originally consisted of ten free families.
References
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "decennary, adj. and n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1894.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "decenary, adj.1" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2015.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "decenary | decennary, adj.2 and n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1894.