NODE / 0247attestedAnglo-French
disme / dime
a tenth part; tithe
- DATE
- Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
- SENSE
- tenth part tithe
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:12:disme dime:attested:sense:tenth-part-tithe
The consonant-bearing and simplified spellings belong to the same French tenth-word family.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERromance developmentestablished
Latin · Latin antiquity · tenth part tithedecima
a tenth part; tithe
- SOUND
- Anglo-French disme and dime continue Latin decima through regular Romance reduction and spelling change.
- MEANING
- The tenth-part and tithe meaning remains central.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Latin to Anglo-French.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The source directly traces the French forms to Latin decima.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
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- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English dime adapts Anglo-French disme or dime, including loss of the written consonant in the simplified form.
- MEANING
- The meaning remains a tenth part or tithe.
HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02semantic specializationestablished
- SOUND
- Modern dime preserves the older spelling while English pronunciation developed to /daɪm/.
- MEANING
- A general tenth-part or tithe word is applied specifically to a coin worth one tenth of a dollar.
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04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
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05EDITORIAL REUSE
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