Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:14:28 +0100 (MET) | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | etymology was: OOM fest |
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> Btw, 'decade' comes from Latin 'deca'=10 and dies=days
No. It is from the Greek dekas, dekados (group of ten).
> Could it be due to the word 'decadent'
Unrelated. (MLatin: to fall down.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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