The corpus record

δεκᾱνία

dekania · ἡ

measure, division, guard-house of a decuria

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What it meant

δεκᾱνία · dekania — LSJ

= Lat. decuria, Arr. Tact. 6.1.

2 measure, division

measure or division of land, ἀμπέλων δ., δ. Κολπηνή, IGRom. 4.1675 (Lydia), cf. PFay. 156 (ii A.D.), POxy. 1512 (iv A.D.); also δ. πυροῦ BGU 894.11.

3 guard-house of a decuria

guard-house of a decuria, IGRom. 3.1286 (Arabia), Princeton Exp. Inscr. 636.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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