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dec⋅u⋅man

[dek-yoo-muhn]
–adjective
1. large or immense, as a wave.
2. (in ancient Rome) of or pertaining to the tenth cohort of a legion.
–noun
3. Also called decuman gate. (in ancient Rome) the main gate of a military camp, facing away from the enemy and near which the tenth cohort of the legion was usually stationed.

Origin:
1650–60; < L decumānus, decimānus of the tenth, large, equiv. to decim(us) tenth (see decimate ) + -ānus -an
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