decimus

[ des-uh-muhs; Latin dek-i-moos ]

adjective

1. (in prescriptions) tenth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of decimus¹

From Latin

Example Sentences

The original film won five Oscars, including best actor for Russell Crowe, who played Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius alongside Joaquin Phoenix as Emperor Commodus.

From BBC

Facing Regents Park, they were designed and built in the early 1800s by the renowned Georgian architects, James and Decimus Burton and John Nash, who also designed the park.

From BBC

There’s a lot to draw the eye away from the central action in Scott’s films – Orlando Bloom, for example, doesn’t have the presence to draw focus in Kingdom of Heaven – but Crowe’s General Maximus Decimus Meridius has a simple and well-defined mission, and the actor plays it as righteous as a sword plunged straight to the hilt.

From The Guardian

In normal times, there is very little that can’t be made better by General Maximus Decimus Meridius.

From The Guardian

Created by ironfounder Richard Turner and designer Decimus Burton, its interior climate mimics a tropical rainforest to house specimens collected by plant-hunters such as Francis Masson, who collected its huge South African cycad, Encephalartos altensteinii, in 1773.

From Nature