dēni
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- ten each, ten at a time, by tens
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
dēni, ae, a (
I. gen. plur., denum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49 fin.; Col. 2, 10, 26 al.:
denorum, Liv. 43, 5 fin.), num. distrib. [decem], ten each, ten at a time, by tens. I. Prop.:
uxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes, Caes. B. G. 5, 14: Ariovistus denos ut ad colloquium adducerent postulavit, id. ib. 1, 43, 3.—II. Transf., for decem, ten:
bis denis Phrygium conscendi navibus aequor, Verg. A. 1, 381; 11, 326: ter denis navibus ibant, id. ib. 10, 213: ut bis dena viginti non sint, Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 27 al.—B. For decimus, tenth:
dena Luna, Ov. Her. 11, 46.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dēnī ae, a
(gen. dēnūm, C.; dēnōrum, L.), num distrib., ten each, ten at a time, by tens: uxo res habent deni inter se communīs, Cs.: uxores denas habere, S.: pueri annorum septenūm denūm.—Ten (poet. for decem): Bis denis conscendi navibus aequor, V.: Ante quater denos annos, O.