decenarius

Reshaping of Classical dēnārius (from dēnī +‎ -ārius) based on Late Latin decēnus (also influenced by adjectives such as septēnārius (“sevenfold; septenary”)).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /de.keːˈnaː.ri.us/, [d̪ɛkeːˈnäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.t͡ʃeˈna.ri.us/, [d̪et͡ʃeˈnäːrius]

decēnārius (feminine decēnāria, neuter decēnārium); first/second-declension adjective (Medieval Latin)

1. tenfold

   numerus decēnārius ― the number ten (literally, “the tenfold number”)

   • 1700, Joachimus Puyol de Llobic, “Casus IX [Case 9]”, in Opus morale de restitutione et contractibus‎, volume I, Tolosa: Guillelmus Robert & Joannes Vialar, page 92:

     ablata una untiate^[sic] à numero decenario, jam iſte non eſſet decenarius numerus, ſed novenarius:

     [ablātā ūnā ūnitāte ā numerō decēnāriō, iam iste nōn esset decēnārius numerus, sed novēnārius:]

     Removing one unit from the number ten, it is no longer the number ten, but nine.

     (literally, “[Having] removed one unit from the tenfold number, it is not a tenfold number anymore, but ninefold”)

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Italian: decenario (learned)

decēnārius m (genitive decēnāriī or decēnārī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. ten (the number 10)
2. tithingman (leader of ten men)
3. tithingman, headborough

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “decenarius”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011