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START / NODE 245Present-Day English1786–today
dime
The United States ten-cent coin, named with an older English and French word for a tenth part or tithe.
“Dime did not begin as the arbitrary name of a coin. It is literally the tenth word in the same family as decimal, decimate, December, and ten.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishdime
a United States or Canadian coin worth ten cents
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Middle English · Middle English, c. 1150–1500dimea tenth part; tithe
- SOUND CHANGE
- Modern dime preserves the older spelling while English pronunciation developed to /daɪm/.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- A general tenth-part or tithe word is applied specifically to a coin worth one tenth of a dollar.
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- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Merriam-Webster supplies both the older tenth-part meaning and the 1786 coin use.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Middle English ancestry; United States coin sense reported from 1786.
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