The corpus record — Latin

deni

ten each, ten at a time, by tens

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Where it lives

Pescennius Niger 2 · 8.78/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
De Lege Agraria 3 · 2.18/10k

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. dēni — Lewis & Short

dēni, ae, a (

I gen. plur., denum, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 49 fin.; Col. 2, 10, 26 al.: denorum, Liv. 43, 5 fin.), num. distrib. [decem], ten each, ten at a time, by tens.

I Prop.: uxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes, Caes. B. G. 5, 14: Ariovistus denos ut ad colloquium adducerent postulavit, id. ib. 1, 43, 3.—

II Transf., for decem, ten: bis denis Phrygium conscendi navibus aequor, Verg. A. 1, 381; 11, 326: ter denis navibus ibant, id. ib. 10, 213: ut bis dena viginti non sint, Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 27 al.—

B For decimus, tenth: dena Luna, Ov. Her. 11, 46.

2. deni — Walde–Hofmann

deni, -ae, -a „je zehn“ (seit Plaut): zu decem, wohl für *dec-noi (: deciós wie seni aus "sex-noi : series) nach by-ms (s. d.), iri-ni usw.; danach sept-Enz, nov-&nt, wonach wieder spütes deceni Cassiod. (Baunack KZ. 25, 257 f£, Sommer Hb.* 476 gegen Brugmann Distrib. 30, II? 2, 78: *dec-snoi; unbefriedigend Pieri RECI, 35, 318 f.). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. deni, p. 371]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. déni (scan p. 190; entry #2943).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. deni (scan p. 371; entry #905).

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