English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Decameron (literally “ten days”), coined from Ancient Greek δέκᾰ (dékă, “ten”) and ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā, “day”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈkaməɹən/
- (US) IPA(key): /dɪˈkæməɹən/, /dɪˈkæməɹɑn/
Proper noun
the Decameron
- A collection of 100 short stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353.
Derived terms
Translations
collection of 100 short stories by Boccaccio
- Albanian: Dekameroni m
- Arabic: دِيكَامِيرُون m (dīkāmīrūn)
- Armenian: Դեկամերոն (Dekameron)
- Basque: Dekamerona
- Belarusian: Дэкамеро́н m (Dekamjerón)
- Bengali: দেকামেরোন (dekamerōn)
- Catalan: Decameró m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 十日談 / 十日谈 (Shírìtán)
- Czech: Dekameron m
- Esperanto: Dekamerono
- Estonian: Dekameron
- Finnish: Decamerone
- French: Décaméron (fr) m
- Georgian: დეკამერონი (deḳameroni)
- German: Dekameron n
- Greek: Δεκαήμερο n (Dekaḯmero), Δεκαήμερον n (Dekaḯmeron)
- Hebrew: דֶקָאמֶרוֹן m (Dekamerón), דֶקָאמֶרוֹנֶה m (Dekameróne)
- Hungarian: Dekameron (hu)
- Italian: Decameron m, Decamerone m
- Japanese: デカメロン (Dekameron)
- Korean: 데카메론 (ko) (Dekameron)
- Latvian: Dekamerons m
- Malayalam: ഡെക്കാമറൺ (ḍekkāmaṟaṇ)
- Norwegian: Dekameronen m
- Persian: دکامرون (dekâmeron)
- Polish: Dekameron m
- Portuguese: Decamerão m, Decameron m
- Romanian: Decameronul n
- Russian: Декамеро́н m (Dekamerón)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Декамѐро̄н m
- Roman: Dekamèrōn (sh) m
- Spanish: Decamerón m
- Thai: ตำนานสิบราตรี (dtam-naan sìp raa-dtrii)
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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “ten days”, coined from Ancient Greek δέκᾰ (dékă, “ten”) and ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā, “day”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ka.meˈrɔn/, /deˈka.me.ron/
- Rhymes: -ɔn, -ameron
- Hyphenation: De‧ca‧me‧ròn, De‧cà‧me‧ron
Proper noun
il Decameron m
- Decameron (collection of 100 short stories by Boccaccio)
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Derived terms