Deka

Most folks are loath to extend credit to another deka-megamurder responsible for the deaths of so many millions of its own citizens, even if it was a useful spoil in terms of killing lots of Germans. ❋ Unknown (2008)

CHETRY: The word I pronounced it, para-skeva - deka - tera. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mbeere: muruba Orma: deka-dubra Rendille: mulahanyo, dook-gudhan Samburu: irri Somali: hashanli, dhamag, mured-bonati ❋ Unknown (1999)

Latin prefixes _milli_ = 1/1000; _centi_ = 1/100; _deci_ = 1/10; the multiples of each unit by the Greek prefixes _deka_ = 10; _hecto_ = 100; ❋ Unknown (N/A)

It is only ten | _Estas nur la deka_ | eh-stahss noor la ❋ William W. Mann (N/A)

Eichhoff gives a Sanskrit word for finger, "daiçini" (taken apparently from _pra-deçinî_, forefinger), and which corresponds curiously with "daçan," ten; and we have the same resemblance running through many of the Indo-European languages, as [Greek: deka] and [Greek: daktylos], _decem_ and ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)

Decameron comes from two Greek words deka, ten, and hemera, a day, the book being so called because the stories in it were supposed to be told in ten days. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

DECALOGUE (Gr. deka, ten, and logos, a word), the Ten Words of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The following forms of numerals differ from those in classical use: deka duo Ex. 28: 21: Josh. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)

Nb. 29: 29 amnous eniausious deka tessares amomous. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)

The same license is extended in the LXX to deka tessares. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)

So in N.T. Gal. deka hex Gen. 46: 18: Ex. 26: 25: Josh. ❋ 1856-1924 (1905)

Ten cities = deka, ten, and polis, a city, a district on the east and south-east of the Sea of Galilee containing "ten cities," which were chiefly inhabited by Greeks. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

In other words, he carries the division of the zodiac a step further, and divides each sign into three equal parts, the "decans" of the astrologers, each containing 10° (_deka_) of the ecliptic. ❋ Unknown (1889)

[Greek: _Manion d 'Akyllios, epelthon hypatos meta deka presbeuton, dietaxe taen eparchian eis to nyn eti symmenon taes politeias schaema_.] [538] An inscription with the words [Greek: _Man (i) os Aky (l) ios Man (i) ou hypato (s) Rhomaion_] has been found near Tralles. ❋ Unknown (1885)

In plain terms, they are demonstrably the work of Eusebius himself, -- who expressly claims The Canons for his own (kanonas deka ton arithmon diecharaxa soi), and leaves it to be inferred that he is the Author of the Sections also. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

[223] Hina de sozomenou kai tou ton loipon di 'holou somatos te kai heirmou, eidnai echois tous oikeious hekastou euangelistou to pous, en hois kata ton auton henechthesan philalethos eipein, ek tou ponematos tou proeiremenou andros eilephos aphormas, kath' heteran methodon kanonas deka ton arithmon diecharaxa soi tous hupotetagmenous. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

* Hina de sozomenou kai tou ton loipon di 'holou somatos te kai heirmou, eidnai echois tous oikeious hekastou euangelistou to pous, en hois kata ton auton henechthesan philalethos eipein, ek tou ponematos tou proeiremenou andros eilephos aphormas, kath' heteran methodon kanonas deka ton arithmon diecharaxa soi tous hupotetagmenous: [1681] 1 ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

Canons: -- kath 'hekaston de arithmon huposemeiosis dia kinnabareos prokeitai, delousa en poio ton deka kanonon kaimenos ho arithmos tunchanei. ❋ 1813-1888 (1871)

Sparta it was fixed at eighteen, so that of [Greek: hoi deka aph 'hêbês] οἱ δέκα ἀφ' ἥβης were men of twenty-eight, [Greek: hoi tettarakonta aph 'hêbês] οἱ τετταράκοντα ἀφ' ἥβης men of fifty-eight, ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)