Decem
A Latin root that represents the number ten and appears in many English words related to counting.
What is Decem?
A Latin root that means one hundred and forms the basis of many numerical words.
What is Centum?
A Latin root meaning one thousand, used in words related to large quantities.
What is Mille?
An event or celebration that takes place every ten years or marks a ten-year milestone.
What is a Decennial?
A unit of money equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
What is a Cent?
A distance originally defined as one thousand paces in ancient measurement systems.
What is a Mile?
A month whose name reflects its original position as the tenth month in the ancient Roman calendar.
What is December?
A time period that consists of one hundred years.
What is a Century?
An animal whose name means “thousand feet,” used to emphasize having many legs.
Millipede
A term used to describe an organism that possesses exactly ten teeth.
What is a Decemdentate?
A celebration or observance marking one hundred years.
What is a Centennial?
A metric measurement that represents one thousandth of a meter.
What is a Millimeter?
A word meaning “having ten leaves,” often used in scientific descriptions of plants.
What is Decemfoliate?
A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
What is a Centimeter?
A span of time lasting one thousand years.
What is a Millennium?
Describes a creature or object that has ten feet or foot-like parts.
What is a Decempedal?
An arthropod whose name means “hundred feet,” even though it rarely has exactly one hundred.
What is a Centipede?
A monetary unit equal to one thousandth of a dollar.
What is a Mill?
Tenfold or ten copies (Hint: think of duplicate, triplicate).
What is to Decemplicate?
A way of expressing a value as parts out of one hundred.
What is a Percent?
A Roman army officer who commanded a group of roughly one hundred soldiers.
What is a Centurion?
A temperature scale based on dividing the range between freezing and boiling into one hundred degrees.
What is a Centigrade?