décadi

See also: decadi

English

Alternative forms

• decadi

Etymology

From French décadi.

Noun

décadi (plural décadis)

1. (now historical) The tenth day of the decade (ten-day week) in the French Republican Calendar, superseding Sunday as a day of rest. [from 18th c.]
   • 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 59:

     [T]he gladness I have felt in France on a Sunday, or decadi, which I caught from the faces around me, was a sentiment more truly religious than all the stupid silliness which the streets of London ever inspired where the Sabbath is so decorously observed.

French

Etymology

From déca- (“deca-, ten”) ‎ -di (“day”), taken from the ordinary weekday names: lundi (“Monday”), mardi (“Tuesday”), mercredi (“Wednesday”), jeudi (“Thursday”), vendredi (“Friday”), samedi (“Saturday”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ka.di/

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• Rhymes: -i

Noun

décadi m (plural décadis)

1. (now historical) décadi

Related terms

• duodi
• nonidi
• octidi
• primidi
• quartidi
• quintidi
• septidi
• sextidi
• tridi

 

Further reading

• “décadi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• caddie
• décida