decima
a tenth part; tithe
- SOUND
- Medieval Latin decimālis is formed from Latin decima with an adjectival suffix.
- MEANING
- A tenth part or tithe becomes “pertaining to tenths.”
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH
TRACE A WORD ↗of a tenth part; of a tithe
The direct source of French décimal.
ANCESTRAL EDGES
a tenth part; tithe
DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
of tenths; decimal
TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
RECORDED EVIDENCE
The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
EDITORIAL REUSE