What does decima mean?
Decima means (generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly.
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/ˈdɛsɪmə/ · noun
(generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly.
His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.
Use decima when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Decima means (generally obsolete) A tenth, particularly.
Common synonyms include tenth, tithe, double-tierce, great-tierce.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His album... dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with... the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.
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