décima

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim 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.
2. isim A tithe or tax of one-tenth (now usually in historical Italian contexts).

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

3. isim 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.
4. isim An organ stop a tenth above the normal 8-foot pitch.
5. isim A 10-line verse or stanza, (chiefly) in the form of a song comprising an introductory verse followed by four such divisions.

   “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.”

6. isim Alternative form of decima.