decuria
English
Noun
decuria (plural decurias)
- Alternative form of decury.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈku.rja/
- Rhymes: -urja
- Hyphenation: de‧cù‧ria
Noun
decuria f (plural decurie)
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
*decu-viria, from decem (“ten”) + vir (“man”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɛˈkʊ.ri.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪eˈkuː.ri.a]
Noun
decuria f (genitive decuriae); first declension
- a group of ten men (or soldiers)
- a jury
- an administrative body comprising ten families
- a tithing
- (in the plural) jurors
- a section of the book of Psalms recited at Matins on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays in the traditional Ambrosian Liturgy of the Hours.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | decuria | decuriae |
| genitive | decuriae | decuriārum |
| dative | decuriae | decuriīs |
| accusative | decuriam | decuriās |
| ablative | decuriā | decuriīs |
| vocative | decuria | decuriae |
Derived terms
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