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- Latin · derived fromdecumānus“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”
- English todaydecuman
From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
decuman
Today it means: Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence. Full definition →
Latin decumānus