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单词 decameron
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Decameronn.

/dɪˈkamərən/
Etymology: < Italian Decamerone, < Greek δέκα ten + ἡμέρα day, after Hexāmeron, mediæval corruption of Hexahemeron or Hexaëmeron, Greek ἑξαήμερον. The Greek form would be δεχήμερον or δεκαήμερον.
The title of a work by Boccaccio containing a hundred tales which are supposed to be related in ten days; used allusively by Ben Jonson.
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1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. iii, in Wks. I. 536 Cle. When were you there? Dav. Last night: and such a decameron of sport fallen out, Boccace neuer thought of the like. View more context for this quotation

Derivatives

Decameˈronic adj. characteristic of or resembling Boccaccio's work.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online January 2018).
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