| Re: adjective form of decade |
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| John of Aix (j.murphy@nospamlibertysurf.fr) |
2004/05/26 11:15 |
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From: "John of Aix" <j.murphy@nospamlibertysurf.fr>
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Subject: Re: adjective form of decade
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:15:39 +0200
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> > I are a engineer.
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> > Is there an adjective form of the word decade? I want to describe
> > something that happens only once in ten years.
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> "Decennial" is the word you need.
> Remember that "decade" implies 10 *days* not 10 years
> though many people seem to propagate the ill use :D)
In French a decade is ten days strictly speaking and
a decan ten years, the exact opposite of English. The French are right as
'decade' comes from decadi (ten days) in Latin and decan from 'decanni'
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