Decima

Meanings

1. One of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the measurer of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Lachesis.

1. A tenth, particularly
2. A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts).
3. A tenth: a note nine degrees of the scale above or below a given note (and thus ten degrees separate counting inclusively) or the interval between such notes.
4. An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch.

1. A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.

Etymology

From Latin meaning "the tenth".