Decimæ, decimarum, siue Decumæ. Cicero. Tithes or tenthes.Decumæ vini & olei, & frumenti in Sicilia locabantur.Cic.Se plus decuma non daturum.Cic.No more than one tenth.Neque Herculi quisquam decumam vouit vn quam. Cice. Accessio decumarum, Vide ACCEDO.Accipere decumas, Vide ACCIPIO.Addicere decumas alicui.Cic.Decumani.Cic.The farmers or gatherers of tenthes or other like taxes.
Decimo, decimas, penult. cor. decimâre. To tithe: to take the tenth parte.Decimare legiones.Liu.To punishe or put to death the tenth man of enerie legion.
Decimus, pen. cor. Adiect. siue Decumus, vt apud antiquos scribebatur. Plaut.The tenth.Hora diei decima.Cic. Pars decuma. Cic.
dĕcĭmo or dĕcŭmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [decimus]. I.To select by lot every tenth man for punishment, to decimate (postAug., although the practice itself occurs as early as 283 A. U. C.; v. Liv. 2, 59 fin.), Suet. Galb. 12: cohortes, id. Aug. 24: cohortium militem, Frontin. Strat. 4, 1, 37 al.— Absol., Suet. Calig. 48.—II.To cause to pay tithes, to collect tithes from a person. —Pass.: et Levi decimatus est, Vulg. Hebr. 7, 9.—III.To select the tenth part as an offering, to pay tithes of anything, Fest. p. 237, 25 Müll.; Vulg. Matth. 23, 23.—Hence, dĕcŭmātus, a, um, P. a., selected, excellent, choice: honestas, Symm. Ep. 3, 49 and 51.—Sup.: juvenis, id. ib. 8, 16.