1. Δεκανός · Dekanos — Chantraine
The corpus record
δεκᾱνός
dekanos
«chef de dix hommes » en Égypte, « décurion » (ap, depuis le 11° 6
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What it meant
2. δεκᾱνός · dekanos — LSJ
= Lat. decurio, IGRom. 1.1046 (Alexandria); police officer in Egypt, PTeb. 27.31 (ii B.C.), POxy. 387 (i A.D.), etc.
Astrol., δεκανοί, οἱ, decans, thirty-six divinities each of whom presided over ten degrees of the zodiac, Nech. ap. Firm. 4.22.2, Herm. ap. Stob. 1.21.9, Heph.Astr. 1.1, Gal. 11.797, PMag.Par. 1.1203, Leont. in Arat. p.569 M., Ps.-Callisth. 1.4, etc.
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.