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titheEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Middle English tithe, tythe, tethe, from Old English tēoþa, tēoða, teogoþa (in verb senses via Middle English tithen, tythen, tethen, from Old English tēoþian, teogoþian), from a proposed Proto-Germanic *tehunþô, *tehundô (“a tenth”), with its nasal consonant being lost according to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law. Cognate with West Frisian tsiende (“tithe”), Saterland Frisian Teeged (“tithe”), Dutch tiende, German Low German Teihnte, German Zehnt (“tithe”), Danish tiende (“tithe”), Icelandic tíund (“tithe”), Dutch tiende (“tithe”). Doublet of tenth.
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decimal
Based on ten or tenths; borrowed through French and Medieval Latin from the Latin family of decem, “ten.”
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dime
The United States ten-cent coin, named with an older English and French word for a tenth part or tithe.
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Latin / Indo-European
decima
a tenth part; tithe
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Medieval Latin / Indo-European
decimālis
of a tenth part; of a tithe
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Middle English / Indo-European
dime
a tenth part; tithe
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- Middle English, c. 1150–1500
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Anglo-French / Indo-European
disme / dime
a tenth part; tithe
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- Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
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Was dime invented as a coin name in 1786?
The coin sense is reported from 1786, but the word itself already existed in Middle English and Anglo-French for a tenth part or tithe.
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