What is the Latin word for ten?

The usual Latin words for “ten” are decem, dēni, dēnārius; also dĕcĭēs, decuplus, decennis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“ten” in Latin

decemten; 10 dēniten each, ten at a time, by tens dēnāriuscontaining or consisting of ten things; tenfold, denary dĕcĭēsten times decuplustenfold decennisten-year-old; of ten years, lasting ten years; celebrated or occuring every ten years, decennial

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

ten

decem, with substantives used only in plur., deni, -ae, -a: (distributive) deni. Consisting of ten, containing ten, denarius: ten o’clock, hora decima: a ten, (decas, -adis, Tert.) numerus denarius (Vitr.): the figure ten, numeri denarii figura: ten times, decies: ten times as much, decuplum, or rather decies tanto plus (Liv.); decies tanto amplius: ten years old, decennis (Plin., Quint.), or rather, decem annos natus (Cic.); decem annorum (Cic., Nep.).

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What is the Latin word for ten?: The usual Latin words for “ten” are decem, dēni, dēnārius; also dĕcĭēs, decuplus, decennis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.