decanus

Latin

Etymology

From decem (“ten”) +‎ -ānus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɛˈkaː.nʊs]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈkaː.nus]

Noun

decānus m (genitive decānī); second declension (Late Latin)

chief of ten people (in various contexts)
dean

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	decānus	decānī
genitive	decānī	decānōrum
dative	decānō	decānīs
accusative	decānum	decānōs
ablative	decānō	decānīs
vocative	decāne	decānī

Descendants

Italo-Dalmatian:
- Italian: decano
- Venetan: degàn
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: dean
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: degà
- Occitan: degan
- Old French: deien, deen (Anglo-Norman)
  - Norman: deyen
  - Middle French: doien
    - French: doyen
      - → English: doyen
      - → Portuguese: daião
      - → Turkish: duayen
  - → Middle English: deen
    - English: dean
  - → Portuguese: deão
  - → Spanish: deán
Ibero-Romance:
- Spanish: degano
Borrowings:
- → Ancient Greek: δεκᾱνός (dekānós)
  - Byzantine Greek: δεκανός (dekanós)
- → Asturian: decanu
- → Dutch: decaan, (superseded) dekaan
  - Afrikaans: dekaan
  - → Indonesian: dekan
  - → Papiamentu: dekan
- → German: Dekan
  - → Turkish: dekan
- → Hebrew: דִּיקָן (dikán)
- → Old Czech: děkan
  - Czech: děkan
  - → Polish: dziekan
- → Old Irish: decán, decánach
  - Irish: deagánach
- → Portuguese: decano
- → Proto-West Germanic: *dekan (see there for further descendants)
- → Romanian: decan
- → Russian: дека́н (dekán)
- → Spanish: decano

References

“decanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"decanus", 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)
decanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“decanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
decanus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
“decanus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin