Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

decuman

/ˈdɛkjʊmən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-cuman
IPA: /ˈdɛkjʊmən/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.

Obsolete

adj

Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.

noun

An extraordinarily large billow.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"decuman billows"
"Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]"

Etymology

From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: decumānus

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

decumans (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce decuman?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɛkjʊmən/.
What does decuman mean?: Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
Where does decuman come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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