Crossword-Solution: DEKA 4 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Decameron comes from two Greek words deka, ten, and hemera, a day, the book being so called because the stories in it were supposed to be told in ten days.

The Ordinal Numbers, first, second, etc., are formed by adding "a" to the Cardinal Numbers, as "unua", first; "dua", second; "tria", third; "kvara", fourth; "deka", tenth; "centa", hundredth; "mila", thousandth.

His reputation as an historian would not sustain such an accusation, as Diogenes calls his books [Greek: ta deka tôn skeptikôn kai alla kallista].[1] Furthermore, that Sextus used Aenesidemus' own books we know from the direct quotation from them in regard to Plato,[2] which he combines with the ideas of Menodotus[3] and his own.

The co-ordination of [Greek: logos theou, didachê kuriou, kêrygma tôn dôdeka apostolôn] [word of God, teaching of the Lord, preaching of the twelve Apostles], which lay at the basis of all Gentile Christian speculation almost from the very beginning, and which was soon directed against the enthusiasts, originated in a conception which regarded as the essential thing in Christianity, the sure knowledge which is the condition of immortality.

Herodotus says that there were ten[3] demes to each tribe ([Greek: deka eis tas phylas]); but each tribe was composed of three trittyes, one in each of the three districts.