decuria

English

Noun

decuria

1. Alternative form of decury

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -urja

Noun

decuria f (plural decurie)

1. decury

Related terms

• decurione

Anagrams

• rieduca

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Latin

Etymology

*decu-viria, from decem (“ten”) + vir (“man”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deˈku.ri.a/, [d̪ɛˈkʊriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈku.ri.a/, [d̪eˈkuːriä]

Noun

decuria f (genitive decuriae); first declension

1. a group of ten men (or soldiers)
2. a jury
3. an administrative body comprising ten families
4. a tithing
5. (plural) jurors

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	decuria	decuriae
Genitive	decuriae	decuriārum
Dative	decuriae	decuriīs
Accusative	decuriam	decuriās
Ablative	decuriā	decuriīs
Vocative	decuria	decuriae

Derived terms

• dacra

Related terms

• decuriālis
• decuriātim
• decuriātiō

• decuriātus
• decuriō
• decuriōnātus

References

• “decuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decuria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• decuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “decuria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “decuria”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin