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- Latin · derived fromdecennālis“decennial”
- English todaydecennal
From Latin decennālis (“decennial”), from decennis (“10-year”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjective-forming suffix), from decem (“ten”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to decennium + -al.
Words from the same roots
Latindecennālis all →
decennalian
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.