The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδέκᾰ“ten”
- Italian · borrowed fromDecameron
- English todayDecameron
Borrowed from Italian Decameron (literally “ten days”), coined from Ancient Greek δέκᾰ (dékă, “ten”) and ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā, “day”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.