Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dessiatina

/dɛsjəˈtiːnə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dessi-ati-na
IPA: /dɛsjəˈtiːnə/

11

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.

Example Sentences

"The tract of land given by the emperor contains five hundred and forty-five acres, (twenty dessjatines,) being two thousand two hundred and five feet long, and one thousand five hundred and eighty-two wide at its greatest breadth."
"I go shooting there every year, and it is worth five hundred roubles a desyatina cash down, and he is paying you two hundred on long term."
"Clouds, some in very clear profile, black and jagged, sail in armadas towards the Asian arctic, above the sweeping dessiatinas of grasses […]"
"The average peasant allotment, at 2.6 dessyatiny in 1900, was comparable in size to the typical smallholding in France or Germany."

Etymology

From Russian десяти́на (desjatína, “tenth, tithe”).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: десяти́на

Inflected Forms

dessiatinas (plural) dessiatiny (plural) desiatin (alternative) desiatina (alternative) dessiatin (alternative) dessiatine (alternative) dessjatine (alternative) dessyatin (alternative) dessyatine (alternative) desyatin (alternative) desyatina (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce dessiatina?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɛsjəˈtiːnə/.
What does dessiatina mean?: A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
Where does dessiatina come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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