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PRONUNCIATION OF DECURIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DECURIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Decuries is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DECURIES

decumbence
decumbency
decumbent
decumbently
decumbiture
decumulation
decuple
decuria
decurion
decurionate
decurrency
decurrent
decurrently
decursion
decursive
decursively
decurvation
decurve
decurved
decury

WORDS THAT END LIKE DECURIES

accessories
armouries
auguries
bistouries
buries
canterburies
centuries
Furies
half-centuries
injuries
juries
luxuries
mercuries
perjuries
sauries
savouries
seigneuries
subtreasuries
tilburies
treasuries
usuries

Synonyms and antonyms of decuries in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «decuries» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DECURIES

Find out the translation of decuries to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of decuries from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «decuries» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

decuries
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

decurias
570 millions of speakers

English

decuries
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

decuries
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

decuries
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

decuries
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

decuries
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

decuries
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

décuries
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berabad lamanya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

decuries
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

decuries
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

decuries
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sedhih
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

decuries
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

decuries
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दशांश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

decuries
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

decurie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

decuries
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

decuries
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

decurii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δεκαρχιών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

decuries
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

decuries
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

decuries
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of decuries

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DECURIES»

The term «decuries» is used very little and occupies the 159.308 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DECURIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «decuries» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «decuries» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about decuries

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DECURIES»

Discover the use of decuries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to decuries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom
Fortunately, over 100 inscriptions identify men, most of equestrian status but some ducenarii as well, who were connected to the decuries. These inscriptions range widely in both geographic origin and date.30 Unfortunately, the collection ...
Leanna Bablitz, 2007
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The Natural History of Pliny
Of these judices, too, there were at first but fOlll“ decuries only, and in each of these decuries there was hardly one thou; sand men to be found, the provinces not having been hitherto admitted to the office; an observance which is still in force at ...
Pliny (the Elder.), 1857
3
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
the senate consisted of only 100 members, or ten decuries, were the 'decern primi,' from among whom the king chose one as princeps senatus. It appears that when the Ramnes and Tities became united, and the senate consisted of twenty  ...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1841
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The Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
the semi .a consisted of only 100 members, or ten decuries, were the 'decern primi,' from among whom the king chose one as princeps senatus. It appears that when the Ramnes and Tities became united, and the senate consisted of twenty  ...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), 1841
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History of Rome
Dionysius, after describing the Tribes and Curiae, proceeds to state, that the Curiae were divided into Decuries, ^or bodies of ten, at the head of each of which was an officer, who was called Decurion. || Now these bodies of ten • Dion. ii.
Henry Malden, 1830
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Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, ...
empire, great and small, by decuries of ten, one of the ten, called the decurion, being put in charge of the other nine. Five decuries of these rulers of ten had a superior decurion who commandedfifty; two decuries offifty had a superior decurion ...
Garcilaso de la Vega, 2014
7
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Difussion of ...
the senate consisted of only 100 members, or ten decuries, were the 'decern primi,' from among whom the king chose one as princeps senatus. It appears that when the Ramnes and Tilics became united, and the senate consisted of twenty ...
8
Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru ...
Five decuries of these rulers of ten had a superior decurion who commanded fifty; two decuries of fifty had a superior decurion who ruled a hundred. Five decuries ofa hundred were subject to another captain-decurion who ruled five hundred.
Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, 2006
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Pre-historic America
The population was divided into decuries, and amongst the ten individuals who formed each decury, the Inca or his representatives chose one, who became the chief over the nine others. Five decuries had at their head a decurion of superior  ...
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac (marquis de), William Healey Dall, 1901
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
the senate consisted of only 100 members, or ten decuries, were the 'decern primi,' from among whom the king chose >ne as princeps senatus. It appears that when the Ramnes and Tities became united, and the senate consisted of twenty  ...

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DECURIES»

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Notes towards a history of Italian anarchism in Egypt (by Leonardo …
... “factions” and “decuries”[7], divided (he says) “not on questions of ideas or form, but for personal reasons and perhaps regional questions”. «Anarkismo.net, Jun 15»

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