decuman

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An extraordinarily large billow. obsolete
    — Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence. not-comparable,obsolete
    — decuman billows
  2. Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed. historical,not-comparable

词形变化

decumans plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).
词源 2
From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).
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