Meaning of decima | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tenth, particularly
2. A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts).
3. A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.
4. One of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the measurer of the thread of life. She is the Roman equivalent of Lachesis.
   Roman
5. A tenth: a note nine degrees of the scale above or below a given note (and thus ten degrees separate counting inclusively) or the interval between such notes.
   obsolete
6. An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch.

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Examples

“He brandished his title as apostolic commissioner in court, and as supervisor of the papal decima in Tuscany.”

“His album... dealt with the song form⟳ of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.”

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