decimatio

Latin

Noun

1. decimation (punishment of taking a tenth)
2. tithing

Descendants

• English: decimation
• Finnish: desimaatio
• Russian: децима́ция (decimácija)

References

• “decimatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• decimatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “decimatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “decimatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin