diece

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdjɛ.t͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtʃe
  • Hyphenation: diè‧ce

Numeral

diece (invariable)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of dieci
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXV, p. 367, vv. 31-33:
      [...] onde cessar le sue opere biece ¶ sotto la mazza d'Ercule, che forse ¶ gliene diè cento, e non sentì le diece.
      [...] whereat his tortuous actions ceased beneath ¶ the mace of Hercules, who peradventure ¶ gave him a hundred, and he felt not ten.

Noun

diece m (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of dieci

References
  • dieci in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin decem.

Pronunciation
  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈɾjeːt͡ʃə]
  • (Castelmezzano) IPA(key): [ˈdiːt͡ʃ]

Numeral

diece

  1. ten

References
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 288: “nove; dieci” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
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