decennium

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning ten-year period
Literal translation ten-year period
Variants
decennium
Edited by
ten-year period unit of time

Si Saturnus temporum dominus effectus Marti deputaverit tempora, deputat quidem [et] ex decennio suo menses XV.

‘If Saturn becomes the time-lord and allots its time to Mars, he allots 15 months of his ten-year period’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.33.5

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 2.191

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). decennium (Lemma #1402). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1402/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). decennium (Lemma #1402). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1402/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). decennium (Lemma #1402). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1402/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) decennium (Lemma #1402), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1402/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1402,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {decennium ({Lemma} #1402)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1402/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1402/},
}