English Explanatory Dictionary

decuman

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
  2. Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.
noun
  1. An extraordinarily large billow.

Pronunciation

/ˈdɛkjʊmən/

Word forms

decuman decumans

Etymology

From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).

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