decanus

From decem (“ten”) +‎ -ānus.

(Classical) IPA^(key): /deˈkaː.nus/, [d̪ɛˈkäːnʊs̠]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈka.nus/, [d̪eˈkäːnus]

decānus m (genitive decānī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. chief of ten people (in various contexts)
2. dean

Second-declension noun.

• “decanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• decanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• decanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “decanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• decanus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “decanus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin